THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXII, 
No. 260. 
AUGUST 1849. 
Third Series, 
No. 20. 
AN ESSAY ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FARM 
HORSE, * 
CONNECTED WITH THE BREEDING AND REARING OF THE ANI¬ 
MAL; AND WITH THE MOST APPROVED PLAN OF FEEDING. 
By Robert Read, M.R.C.V.S, Crediton. 
“ Order is gain : waste not, want not.” 
[Concluded from p. 392.] 
Stable Management. 
THE cart-horse or colt that has never been stabled, when taken 
up from grass and at once housed or confined in the stable, should 
never be put on a full diet of hay and corn; but have bran mashes, 
and food in moderation allowed him for a few days, and be gradu¬ 
ally inured to manger feeding. The change in the food is apt to 
induce in some horses, when first stabled and more liberally fed, 
grease or swollen legs, with cracked heels. A dose of physic will 
then be required, followed by a little alterative medicine. In the 
management of the stable, cleanliness should be strictly observed ; 
too little attention being generally paid to this department by the 
farmer. It has been truly said, that there is not one stable in 
twenty cleaned out every day: urine and dung, with decomposed 
litter, are consequently accumulating every day, impregnating the 
air with foul exhalations; the respiring of which must have a bane¬ 
ful influence on the blood as it passes through the lungs. A pure 
atmosphere is requisite for the maintenance of the healthy func¬ 
tions of the different organs of the body; a vitiated atmosphere is 
sure, sooner or later, to induce actual disease; witness the stimu¬ 
lating effect of ammonia on our eyes on first entering a stable in 
the morning. The ill effects of confined air is soon apparent on the 
lesser animals: they soon die in small close rooms. The stabling 
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