The horse and his diseases : embracing his history and varieties, breeding and management and vices; with the diseases to which he is subject, and the remedies best adapted to their cure . swould otherwise prevail, frequent painting may in some degreedissipate the gloom. Eor another reason, it will be evident that the stable shouldnot possess too glaring a light; it is the resting-place of thehorse. The work of the farmers horse, indeed, is principallyconfined to the day. The hours of exertion having passed, theanimal returns to his stable to feed and to repose, and the latteris as necessary a
The horse and his diseases : embracing his history and varieties, breeding and management and vices; with the diseases to which he is subject, and the remedies best adapted to their cure . swould otherwise prevail, frequent painting may in some degreedissipate the gloom. Eor another reason, it will be evident that the stable shouldnot possess too glaring a light; it is the resting-place of thehorse. The work of the farmers horse, indeed, is principallyconfined to the day. The hours of exertion having passed, theanimal returns to his stable to feed and to repose, and the latteris as necessary as the former, in order to prepare him for re-newed work. Something like the dimness of twilight is requi-site to induce the animal to compose himself to sleep. Thishalf-light is more particularly adapted to horses of heavy the quietness of a dimly-lighted stable, they obtain repose,and accumulate flesh and fat. GROOMING* 183 GROOMiisra. To the agriculturist it is not necessary to say much underthis head, as custom, apparently without any ill effect, hasallotted so little of the comb and brusli for the farmers auimal that is worked all day, and turned out at night,. GROOMING. requires little more to be^^^=^^ done to him than to have the dirt, brushed off his limbs. Kegular grooming, by ren-dering his slvia more sensitive to the alteration oftemperature, and the inclemency of weather, would baprejudicial. The horse that is altogether turnedout, needs no grooming. The dandruff, or scurf, which accu- 134 GROOMING. mulates at the roots of the hair, is a provision of nature todefend him from the wind and the cold. It is to the stabled horse, highly fed, and little or irregularlyworked, that grooming is of so much consequence. Goodrubbing with the brush, or the curry-comb, opens the pores ofthe skin, causes the blood to circulate to the extremities of thebody, produces free and healthy perspiration, and stands inthe stead of exercise. No horse will carry a fine coat
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