Note 11 — APPENDIX.

The bad effects of hard water on the animal system, are likewise manifested in horses. “Hard water drawn fresh from the well,” says Mr. Youatt, “will assuredly make the coat of a horse unaccustomed to it stare, and it will not unfrequently gripe, and otherwise injure him. Instinct, or experience, has made even the horse himself conscious of this; for he will never drink hard water, if he has access to soft; he will leave the most transparent water of the well, for the river, although the water may be turbid, and even for the muddiest pool. Some trainers have so much fear of hard or strange water, that they carry with them to the different courses the water that the animal has been accustomed to drink and what they know agrees with it.”