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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
rience has taught them this ; they will leave crystalline 
hard water, and resort to soft, however turbid it may be. 
Horses kept in the stable should be watered in summer 
at least three times a day ; and if this salutary advice be 
attended to, many of the diseases to which they are liable 
will be prevented. Horses subjected tc hard labour require a 
great deal of drink to supply that moisture which is thrown 
off by perspiration, and the poor animals but too frequently 
suffer much from a want of due attention to this. Let any 
one observe how eagerly a horse plunges his muzzle into a pail 
of water, and with what difficulty he can be removed from 
it while a drop remains, and he will be able to judge of the 
thirst which he must have suffered. If they are allowed a 
moderate quantity of water while warm, they must not be 
permitted to stand still for some time afterwards, otherwise 
very baa consequences may follow; and nothing is so likely 
irreparably to injure the wind of a horse, as to gallop him 
immediately after drinking; but a little, taken at intervals, 
will not harm him. If horses are allowed to drink freely 
when overheated, and remain quiet, violent spasms, inflam¬ 
mation, and sudden death is likely to ensue. 
SECTION III—TRAINING. 
Training should be commenced as soon as the colt is 
taken from the mare, and, as before hinted at, he should be 
placed under the care of a man of a mild and gentle dis¬ 
position. Kind treatment and caresses are the only sure 
methods to obtain obedience, attachment, and confidence in 
man. This maxim should be applied to horses even of the 
most stubborn temper, for assuredly if gentle measures will 
not render them obedient, harsh treatment never will. In 
short, most of the vices in horses may be traced to their 
being early intrusted to the care of persons of brutal dis- 
