Gleason's horse book The only authorized work by America's king of horse tamers, comprising history, breeding, training, breaking, buying, feeding, grooming, shoeing, doctoring, telling age and general care of the horse . do not masticate it prop-erly, and the result is that their digestive organs have to performwhat their teeth ought to do. Take and turn your horse out into a field, or say on the side of ahill, and you will never see him feeding up the hill; he will alwaysfeed sideways of the hill or down the hill. I claim that many horsesare made sprung knee, stiff necked, many times come ou
Gleason's horse book The only authorized work by America's king of horse tamers, comprising history, breeding, training, breaking, buying, feeding, grooming, shoeing, doctoring, telling age and general care of the horse . do not masticate it prop-erly, and the result is that their digestive organs have to performwhat their teeth ought to do. Take and turn your horse out into a field, or say on the side of ahill, and you will never see him feeding up the hill; he will alwaysfeed sideways of the hill or down the hill. I claim that many horsesare made sprung knee, stiff necked, many times come out of thu stableacting as though they were foundered, caused from the continualitrain of standing and reaching up for feed, which its positively uu« — 134 — natural for all dumb animals. Think of yourself getting your breaVfast reaching three feet above your head for every mouthful that yoqget It would be more pleasant and you would relish your meal moreby having the food placed one or two feet below your mouth. I ap-prove of having all horses fed in the following manner: Take yourmangers and racks entirely out of the stall; feed the hay from thedoor evea with your horses feet. In giving grain have a box made. fi@7«e Eating bis Food from the Cls-onnd. as Nature Way to Food tbe Horse, Ttse eo3> movable, and place the grain in this box, and let the horse eat thatfrom even with his feet. He eats his grain slow, masticating it prop-erly, and the result is that while you have had to give your horsetwelve quarts of grain in feeding from a high manger, nine quartsfed from even with his feet will keep him in bettt>r condition thanthe twelve quarts fed from the manger; and I think that you willsoon find out that my idea will save ten per cent, of food in one year. ~1»6 — SLEfcSOtfS. fUll OUTfIT
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