. Biggle horse book. Horses. w 32 FEEDING AND oats are a much better feed. However plentiful corn may be, it should be fed sparingly. Lay on as much muscle as you please, the more the better, but a horse overburdened w^ith fat is unable to stand as much hard work as one whose muscles are better developed. Great care and regularity should be given to watering and feeding. The w^ater should in summer be clean, fresh and cool, and in the winter should be free from ice. Every horse should have cut hay, straw, corn-fodder, or wheat chaff, wetted and mixed with bran, at least once a day t
. Biggle horse book. Horses. w 32 FEEDING AND oats are a much better feed. However plentiful corn may be, it should be fed sparingly. Lay on as much muscle as you please, the more the better, but a horse overburdened w^ith fat is unable to stand as much hard work as one whose muscles are better developed. Great care and regularity should be given to watering and feeding. The w^ater should in summer be clean, fresh and cool, and in the winter should be free from ice. Every horse should have cut hay, straw, corn-fodder, or wheat chaff, wetted and mixed with bran, at least once a day the year round. In the hot weather a horse should not be fed much corn. Bran and oats are much better. The more work the more feed, of course. The practice of feeding the horse when tired and thirsty is altogether too common, and then too with the extra thirst of a full meal allow it to gorge itself with water. When this is done the horse should remain quiet for a full hour before starting on the road or at hard work to get space for its lungs to play and its heart to beat, by the digestion of the food and its removal to the bowels. Did you ever get in your mouth or on your plate some potato that had soured in the hot weather? If so, you know something of the misery a horse must suffer when compelled to take all his food from a sour manger. Cut food, moist- ened, is very likely to sour the manger. The good horseman will always bend over it when tying his charges. Sourness is easily detected and easily cured by a pail of scalding water. A pinch of charcoal dust thrown in the manger daily will help keep things sweet and i)revent acidity in the horse's stomach. If the horse eats lots of grain and does not do well, it must have sore teeth or a poor digestion. It is an easy thing to have the teeth smoothed so it can eat well. If the trouble FEEDING AND WATERING. 33 is in the stomach, feed less grain. Too much grain will often make a disordered stomach, and the animal will do better o
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