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form, and health; these circumstances, especially the work, 
mnust regulate the allowance. 
When the horse has to work as much and as often as he is 
able, his allowance of food should be unlimited. 
When the work is such as to destroy the legs more than it 
exhausts the system, the food must be given with some restric- 
tion, unless the horse be a poor eater. 
When the work is moderate, or less than moderate, a good 
feeder will eat too much. 
When the weather is cold, horses that are much exposed to 
it require more food than when the weather is warm. 
When the horse is in good working condition, he needs less 
food than while he is only getting into condition. 
Young growing horses require a little more food than those 
of mature age; but, as they are not fit for full work, the dif- 
ference is not great. 
Old horses, those that have begun to decline in vigor, require 
more food than the young or the matured. 
Hot-tempered, irritable horses seldom feed well; but those 
that have good appetites require more food to keep them in 
condition, than others of quiet and calm disposition. 
Small-bellied, narrow-chested horses require more food than 
those of deep and round carcass; but few of them eat enough 
to maintain them in condition for full work. 
Lame, greasy-heeled, and harness-galled horses require an 
extra allowance of food to keep them in working condition. 
Sickness, fevers, inflammations, all diseases which influence 
health so much as to throw the horse off work, demand, with 
few exceptions, a spare diet, which, in general, consists of 
bran-mashes, grass, carrots, and hay.* 
5. Watering—tThis is a part of stable management little 
regarded by the farmer. He lets his horses loose morning and 
night, and they go to the nearest pond or brook and drink their 
fill, and no harm results, for they obtain that kind of water 
* Stewart's Stable Book. 
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