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 . into consideration. The third mode of grazing appears to be the least objection-able. The horses have no field labor on Sunday; if the pas-ture be good, the weather favorable, and the horses notfatigued, they are better at grass than in the house. In some places the road-horses are sometimes put to grasson Sunday. This practice has nothing apparently to recom-mend it. The weekly work of these horses in gener
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 . into consideration. The third mode of grazing appears to be the least objection-able. The horses have no field labor on Sunday; if the pas-ture be good, the weather favorable, and the horses notfatigued, they are better at grass than in the house. In some places the road-horses are sometimes put to grasson Sunday. This practice has nothing apparently to recom-mend it. The weekly work of these horses in general de-mands the rest which Sunday brings; and if they travel at afast pace, as all coach-horses do now, they are apt to eat somuch grass, and carry such a load in their bellies, that onMonday they are easily over-worked. The breathing is im-peded, unless the horses purge, which few do. They oftencome from grass as haggard and dejected as if they had donetwice their ordinary work the day before. SERVICE. A change of lodging, or of diet, is often a cause of a fresh horse is procured, it is well to know how he hasbeen treated during the previous month; if he is a valuable. .SERVICE. r 169 animal, he will certainly be worth this inquiry. Horses thatcome from a dealer have probably been standing in a warmstable, well-clothed, well-groomed, highly fed, and seldomexercised. They have fine glossycoats, are lusty, and in high-spirits; buttheir flesh issoft and are unfitfor fast work;they are easilyheated by exer-tion, and whenthe least warm, seevice. are very apt to take cold. But, wherever the horse comesfrom, or whatever his condition may be, changes in referenceto food, temperature, and work, must be effected by slowdegrees. It is absurd and always pernicious to take a horsefrom the field, and put him in a warm stable, and on richfood all at once; it is no less erroneous to take him froma warm to a cold stable, or to demand exertion to which hehas not been tr
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