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you've got a horse now, H., that can stand your 

 work.'" "Yes," said I, "but he couldn't until I 

 changed his feed." "How is that?" "Well, he 

 was running down on three meals, and has ' run up ' 

 on two, that is all." 



H. B. W., of Lowell, Mass., states that he drove 

 an advertising and delivery team for a patent med- 

 icine concern for five years, using the same pair 

 of horses constantly. The first year he fed on the 

 prevailing system, but soon after, acting upon the 

 suggestion of some one who declared it would benefit 

 his horses, he fed only morning and night. He said 

 that for four years he had a team that attracted at- 

 tention wherever he went — " a team to be proud of," 

 he said. For the last three years he followed the 

 " example " of his horses and ate but twice himself, 

 and " by keeping clear of the fancy stuff that hotel 

 tables are generally covered with, and eating the 

 plainest food I could find," said he, " I cured myself 

 of dyspepsia, and without any help from the d — d 

 stuff I was carting about the country ! " He further 

 remarked that his horses always "drove freer" in the 

 afternoon than in the forenoon. 



PREJUDICE. 



To show the prejudice of old horsemen against in- 

 novations of this sort, I will relate an instance of a 

 gentleman who was impressed with the idea and 

 wished to try the two-meal plan on his horse. He 

 ordered the stable-keeper to leave out the mare's 

 noon meal, and feed night and morning only, hay and 



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