Identifier: familyhorseitsst00mart (find matches)
Title: The family horse : its stabling, care and feeding. A practical manual for horse-keepers
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Martin, George A., d. 1904
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: New York : Orange Judd Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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the utmost speedwhich can be got out of the horse, and then jogging along at a walk.When driving for pleasure or business with a light wagon, and afairly good horse, an average gait of eight miles an hour may bekept up for a long time, with less wear to the horse than a jerkyand fitful pace. But to quote again from Herbert: In speaking ofdriving at an equal pace, we would not, of course, be understood tomean that horses should be driven at the same gait and speed overall roads, and over ground of all natures. Far from it. A gooddriver will never, perhaps, have his horse going at exactly the samerate for any two consecutive twenty minutes. Over a dead level, thehardest of all things except a long continuous ascent of miles, hewill spare his horses. Over a rolling road he will hold them haidin hand as he crosses the top and descends the first steep pitch of adown-grade, will swing them down the remainder at a pace whichwill carry them across the intervening flat and half way up the sue-
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ON THE ROAD. 83 ceeding hill, and will catch them in hand again, and hold them hardover the top, as before. Wlien being driven either for business or pleasure, horses shouldbe watered at inteivals of an hour or so, but not more than half abucketful at once. When going all day, they should be wateredand fed at least once during the day, and light feeds at frequentintervals are better. A feed eaten from a nose-bag, while standingin the harness, is sometimes the best that can be given, under thecircumstances. But when it is possible to relieve the horse of its har-ness, put it in a stall and make it comfortable while taking its mid-day rations, it will be far better prepared to go during tlie remainderof the day. A horse that has spirit enough to go w ith any satisfaction to itsdriver rarely needs the whip. The writer once had a young horsewhich he drove for months at a time without taking the whip fromthe socket. With keen intelligence and a high spirit, the horsewas quick to comprehend

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