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day, and he would not be the worse if 
he were treated as the Germans treat 
themselves, with four meals a day. 
Moreover, a horse’s food should be 
varied a little. Oats and hay, three 
times a day, for three hundred and sixty 
five days in the year, may suffice, but 
it seems to me very like cruelty when it 
is so easy to vary the food, with barley, 
beans, pease, corn, turnips, and many 
other things easy to obtain, and not at 
all expensive. A little nibble of fresh 
grass, occasionally, is also a grateful 
change, but not much of this should he 
given when a horse is doing steady work. 
The allowance of oats in the United 
States army is ten quarts a day. This 
with plenty of hay, is a good allowance 
and will keep a horse in good condition, 
but a hearty eater can make way with 
twelve quarts a day, and be all the 
better for it. Hay should not be fed 
from a rack over the manger, but from 
the ground. When carrots are fed, 
they should be sliced; whole, they might 
choke a horse. When corn is fed, it 
should be given on the cob. In this 
way, the horse improves his teeth and 
helps his gums, while he is obliged to 
feed slowly. 
A horse should be watered before 
eating, and the last thing at night before 
the stable is closed. And when the 
horse comes in tired, he should be given 
a mouthful of water, even before he is 
permitted to drink his fill. I have seen 
stables where there was running water 
in a trough in each stall. I do not rec¬ 
ommend this, nor yet a common drink¬ 
ing-place for all the horses in the stable. 
A bucket filled from a hydrant, and held 
up to the horse, is the best way. A 
horse needs salt. The best way to give 
it to him is to put a crystal of rock salt in 
his trough, and let it remain there. 
He will then take it when he pleases, 
and not too much at a time. 
One man cannot properly look after 
an unlimited number of horses. If the 
stableman does no driving, he can look 
after four, together with the vehicles and 
harness. If he has to go out with the 
carriages, he cannot manage more than 
three. Without a proper, sober, and 
sensible stableman, a gentleman can 
never have any satisfaction out of his 
horses. They are hard to get, but there 
are such. If a man be an accomplished 
horseman, he can train his own servants, 
and be pretty sure of nearly always 
being well served. If he know nothing 
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