Show FEEDING HORSES I 1 the he french method of feeding hor ses says a good authority is as follows three meals are necessary and sufficient with an interval of four or five hours between to keep a horse in good condition oats take at least two hours to digest hay takes three hours and because it takes so long to digest it should be given when the days work is over the evening meal should be a full meal the animal being then at rest and able to digest its food at its leisure there should be an interval of halt an hour between the return of 0 the horse to the stable and his getting his evening feed too much food at a meal or too long abstinence between meals followed by voracious feeding Is conducive ducile of colic and indigestion irregularly fed ahe is given to showing his impatience by letting his hoofs play about the woodwork of his bis stall giving refreshers at odd times is also bad remember that both ach and bladder should never be load ed in work time whether light or heavy work is done A horse therefore should not be ridden or driven I 1 immediately alter after a meal on the same principle that it ought not to be fed sooner than halt half an hour after work Is over between one end of the year and another a horse consumes an amount of dry heating food which calls tor for a special regimen to neutralize the excessive groteid con that has taken place thus in autumn a ration of carrots given before the evening meal of oats is good and so in spring at the fall of the winter coat a little green meal is beneficial mixed with hay and oats for the evening meal another maxim much disregarded in practice is that the horse should be watered long before being put to work and then very sparingly deseret far mer |