Horses are pastured at all times of the year. Some are out for lameness, some for bad health, and some that they may be kept at less than the stable cost. The usual time of turning out is about the end of April or beginning of May. Then the grass is young, juicy, tender, and more laxative than at a later period. The spring grass is best for a horse in bad health, worn out by sickness, hard work, or bad food. The weather is mild, neither too hot nor too cold; when unsettled and backward, the delicate, sometimes every horse, should come in at night and on bleak days. Toward the end of summer, the grass is hard, dry, coarse, fit enough to afford nutriment, but not to renovate a shattered constitution. The days are hot, the nights cold and damp, the flies strong and numerous. This is not the time for turning out a delicate, nor a thin-skinned horse. Those that are to be out all winter may be turned off at any time in September. Winter grazing is better for the legs than that of spring* or summer. The bareness of the pasture keeps the carcass light, and the coolness of the atmosphere fines the legs.

But if the horse be very lame, the exercise may be too much for him.