Our horses : or, The best muscles controlled by the best brains . s, and a contractedframe, have a strong tendency to go together, so that we wouldnot give very concentrated food to a celt that we wanted to growlarge. In growing large prize cart horses, we have been verysuccessful, and we owe our success, not to corn, but to turnipsand good grass. G70.—Young horses should have some shelter, and they aremuch better to have it without tying up. A shed in theirl)addock, entirely open to the South, with a deep manger allalong its Xorth side, in which they can get their hay, straw,or roots, makes t
Our horses : or, The best muscles controlled by the best brains . s, and a contractedframe, have a strong tendency to go together, so that we wouldnot give very concentrated food to a celt that we wanted to growlarge. In growing large prize cart horses, we have been verysuccessful, and we owe our success, not to corn, but to turnipsand good grass. G70.—Young horses should have some shelter, and they aremuch better to have it without tying up. A shed in theirl)addock, entirely open to the South, with a deep manger allalong its Xorth side, in which they can get their hay, straw,or roots, makes the best provision for them. A large straw orhay stack will keep a good deal of driving rain off them, or evena high fence, round their paddock, is a great deal better thanS 274 SHELTER. ;-. In tliis matter everything will depend upon theseverity of the climate, and Thoroughbreds will want more carethan cart colts, but liberty and fresh air, and even some poorwinter grass, mixed with their dry food, is of far more consequenceithan most persons CHAPTER XXIV. DISEASES. G71.—The horse is a hardy animal. In a state of nature he islittle subject to disease, and even bears unnatural food, unnaturalconfinement, cruel overdriving, poisonous air, and poisonous drugs^to an extent that no other equally sensitive animal would do. Thepatient ox would bear more inaction and confinement, and the om-niverous pig would bear more extremes in liis food, Init no otheranimal in the world would bear the same amount of overdrivingthat is so commonly and so cruelly inflicted upon the horse. Eachof the many abuses to which he is subjected in domestication, hasproduced some corresponding disorder, until the catalogue of hisdiseases is almost as long and painful as that of the humanfamily, and the average life of the domesticated horse is less thanone half of that of the wild one. G72.—If half the attention devoted to remedies weredirected to easy and certain prevention it would be
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