152 HORSES. 



Giving more grain makes rapid > growth, but is like 

 stuffing an animal for market. When you desire to 

 produce horses for endurance or breeding they' must 

 be matured more slowly. Barrenness, when existing, 

 is produced nine times out of ten by this stuffing 

 process. It ruins the health of stock of all kinds." 



Interesting facts to the same effect were presented 

 by Mr. Wallace, who makes it a point to spend a 

 month once a year in Pittsburg, a noted market for 

 horses : 



" I have gone among the liverymen and railroad 

 contractors and teamsters — men who use the heaviest 

 kind of horses and put them to the hardest kind of 

 work — and asked them where they get their horses 

 and which kinds they prefer. Said one gentleman : 

 ' We used to get our horses from Kentucky ; but now 

 these' Kentuckians have got in the habit of pushing 

 their horses too fast ; after the manner of pushing 

 beef cattle. We want a horse that has grown on hilly 

 ground somewhat rocky, with a limestone soil. We 

 want him kept until he is three years old with a good 

 fair diet, plenty of exercise, and not kept closely in 

 the barn. Otherwise we are obliged to keep them a 

 year before they are able to stand any work.' " 



RUNNING DOWN ON TWO MEALS. 



A friend who became very much impressed with 

 the alleged advantages of the two-meal-a-day system, 

 gave it a trial with his own horse, and came near 

 abandoning the experiment as a failure. His horse 



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