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are exposed to shipping fever he will have very 

 little trouble. In addition to this, I make it a rule 

 to keep a shipping fever medicine on hand, and if 

 the geldings show any symptoms of fever, I can usu- 

 ally break it within 24 hours by using this medicine. 

 I find that vaccination is a great help where I have 

 to bring horses in from all parts of the country 

 and put them in the same bam for feedirig. I do 

 not physic a horse when it is starting on feed, un- 

 less it appears unhealthy, in which case I usually 

 give a physic ball once or twice at the beginning 

 of the feeding period. 



"As soon as I start the horses on feed, I tie them 

 up in single stalls just wide enough so that they 

 may lie down comfortably, I tie my horses in the 

 stalls and never take them out from the time I put 

 them in until they are ready to market. We even 

 carry the water to them. A thin horse that has been 

 working steadily will begin swelling in the legs, 

 after being tied up in the«e single stalls and put 

 on heavy feed. In fact the legs swell up until a 

 man who did not know would think that the horses 

 were utterly ruined. This swelling starts a short 

 time after the horses are tied in, but will come down 

 within 2 or 3 weeks; no one should be disturbed 

 over this temporary swelling that occurs during the 

 feeding period. 



"Long experience has convinced me that horses 

 will fatten a great deal more quickly when tied in 

 single stalls than when loose in box stalls or running 

 out in yards or sheds. I have paid enough for my 

 experience to satisfy me that there isi no other 

 method of feeding horses which is so economical 

 and so conducive to quick results as keeping them 

 tied in single stalls and never moving them out 

 from the time they are started on feed. Not even 



