CHAPTER XIII 



THE CAEE AND MANAGEMENT OF ANIMALS 



The subject of this chapter has formed the text of many 

 works, and deservedly so from its extreme importance. 

 While, therefore, giving due attention to all the principal 

 points, and special details when we consider them necessary, 

 yet it must not be considered that the question has been 

 dealt with exhaustively. 



The care and management of animals is really the 

 practical application of the laws of hygiene and physiology, 

 supplemented by those special details found necessary by 

 experience. So vast is the subject that probably no one 

 person is master of more than the details concerning one 

 animal ; hence we find that the care and management of 

 horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs, are, generally speaking, 

 separate and distinct callings, and certainly no one person 

 could possibly lay claim to be an expert of the whole. As 

 each animal is the study of a lifetime, we shall be com- 

 pelled to draw on the best available sources for such special 

 information as is outside our personal experience. 



SECTION I.— THE HOBSE. 



This subject will be divided under three heads, viz., the 

 care and management of horses in early life, in the stable 

 and at work. 



THE YOUNG ANIMAL. 



Early Handling. — Horses are born wild. A recognition 

 of this fact would save many in after life, for it points to 



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