Our horses : or, The best muscles controlled by the best brains . i-ots at first. Carrots are relaxing, parsnips are fattening,Swedes are the best roots to give a horse in large quantities,mangolds improve in late spring when other roots deteriorate,kohl rabi is more suited for milch cows than for horses, potatoesshould not be given in large quanties and should be either boiledor pulped. All other roots are best pulped and mixed with chaff,but where there is no convenience for that they may be sliced,or merely washed and put in the manger for the horses to gnawto pieces themselves. For fast ho
Our horses : or, The best muscles controlled by the best brains . i-ots at first. Carrots are relaxing, parsnips are fattening,Swedes are the best roots to give a horse in large quantities,mangolds improve in late spring when other roots deteriorate,kohl rabi is more suited for milch cows than for horses, potatoesshould not be given in large quanties and should be either boiledor pulped. All other roots are best pulped and mixed with chaff,but where there is no convenience for that they may be sliced,or merely washed and put in the manger for the horses to gnawto pieces themselves. For fast horses the quantity should neverhe large, but a small daily allowance keeps hard fed horses fromgetting stale, stiff, and husky, and adds years to their farm horses they keep the wind right, which so often goeswrong with great quantities of hay alone, and to some extenttake the place of green food during the winter, so that the rootfed horse comes up from grass or i-eturns to it without any?extreme or dangerous clianwe to affect his dijjestive CHAPTER V. WATER. 04 —It is distressino- to think of the amount of discomfortinflicted on the horse by the ignorance of his owners and keeperson this simple sul>ject. Water, water everywliere, and not adrop to drink, must often be the inward cry of the poor, thirsty,hard worked and dry fed horse. On his natural .«>Teen pasturehe could manage to exist some time without water, but compelledsadly against his will to live on nothing but corn and dry hay,how hard it must seem to him to be rushed through or past eaclitempting stream, and to be scolded or kicked when he would gladlydiink the water in which his own dirty feet have been of grooms have lived and died under the impressionthat their chief duty Avas to find out how little water a horsecould live on. For hundreds of years grooms have been taughtby the great diplomatised authorities, who are supposed to knoweverything and never make any mistake
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