The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . ached. If there is not too muchgiven, the horse will eat it clean. The importance of this is now so well understood thatall first-class horses are fed in this way. For the ordinarywork horse, or country stables, a simple low rack or man-ger, one side made into a box or
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . ached. If there is not too muchgiven, the horse will eat it clean. The importance of this is now so well understood thatall first-class horses are fed in this way. For the ordinarywork horse, or country stables, a simple low rack or man-ger, one side made into a box or receptacle for the grain,and the other part for hay, is all that is necessary. If twohorses are kept together, the stall should be about twelvefeet wdde, with grain boxes at the right and left, and the PEOPEK STYLE OF EACK. 549 manger for hay in the center. Horses accustomed to work-ing together will always agree when kept in the same stall,especially when they have separate mangers, and are pre-A^ented by their halters from interfering with each othersgrain. The mangers and racks should be on a level, andabout three feet and four inches from the ground. Themanger should not be less than sixteen or. eighteen inchesdeep; eighteen inches from front to back, and twenty ortwenty-two inches in length. For one horse, the rack. Fig. 307.—The accepted form of single stalls. should be about four feet in length. The advantage of sucha manger and rack is, that all the hay that is put into itwill be eaten clean. There will be less danger than bythe common high rack of putting more hay before the horsethan he will eat at the time, and thus his mussing andspoiling it will be prevented. It will entirely obviate theobjection of dust and seeds falling upon his head and intohis eyes, or of pulling the hay out and wasting it under hisfeet. Some horses are inclined to throw their hay out with 550 STABLING. their noses. This can be effectually prevented by nailingtwo or three bars across the uppe
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