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IN Part 1 of this work the authoritries to explain scientifically the errors of the present routine mismanagement (as he calls it), and how it is opposed to the natural system and health of the horse; and in the second part he considers and explains the practical management of the horse under what he calls the Rational System. The author advocates a return to the natural feeding of the horse, such as grass and similar soft food, and an abandonment of the present almost universal system of forcing with an abundance of dry food, on the ground that thus the horse would live to a much greater age, and perform a far greater amount of work. The subject certainly deserves the serious consideration of all who are interested in horses, and to all such we would recommend the perusal of this little book by one who has evidently given the subject long and serious study. In the second part both sides of the question are well stated in a correspondence between the author and Sir James Yorke Scarlett.
Horses: their Rational Treatment and the Causes of their Deterioration and Premature Decoy.
In Two Paris. By Amateur. (London: Baillière, Tindall, and Co., 1871.)
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Horses: their Rational Treatment and the Causes of their Deterioration and Premature Decoy . Nature 4, 322 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004322b0
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