While leaving or entering the stable, the horse frequently gets a fright. The posts catch his hips or some part of the harness, and besides being alarmed he is sometimes seriously injured. After this has happened several times to an irritable horse, he becomes somewhat unmanageable every time he has to go through a doorway. He ap proaches it with hesitation, and when urged forward he makes a sudden bound, so as to clear the passage at a leap He is repeatedly injured by his own violence, and is ulti mately so terrified and unruly, that he must be backed out. This habit may be prevented by wider doorways, and more care in going through them. When attempted early, it may be so far overcome that it will be unattended with danger or difficulty. The horse ought to be always bridled when led out or in. He should be held short and tight by the head, that he may feel he has not liberty to make a leap, and of itself this is often sufficient to restrain him. Great care must be taken to keep him off the door-posts. Punishment, or a threat of punishment, is improper. It is only timid or high-spirited horses that acquire the habit, and rough usage invariably increases their agitation and terror. The man must be gentle and quiet.

After the habit is fairly established, it is seldom entirely cured; the horse may become less unmanageable, but still continue to require precaution. Some are much worse than others. Some may be led out, quite at leisure, when blindfolded; others when they have the harness-bridle on; a few manage best when neither led nor restrained, but allowed to take their own way; and a few may be ridden through the doorway that can not be led. When. the horse is very troublesome, each of these ways may be tried. Some shy the door only in going in, others in coming out.

Eating the Litter is sometimes regarded as a peculiar habit. It does not, however, deserve this name. If the horse have too little hay he will eat the straw, selecting the cleanest and soundest portions of it. But this is not what is meant. He eats the dirty litter, the straw which has been soiled by the urine. This he does only at times. It indicates a morbid state of the stomach and bowels. Put a lump of rock-salt in the manger. It is the salt contained in the litter that induces the horse to eat it.

Licking themselves, other horses, the mangers, the ground and the walls, and eating earth or lime, arise from the same cause. The hair of horses often contains a good deal of salt deposited in perspiration, and it is to obtain this that the horses lick the skin of themselves and others. Give a piece of rock-salt, and if the horse eat earth, or lick a lime-wall let him have a lump of chalk in addition to the salt. Place them in the manger and leave them there. The lick is sometimes connected with fever, and requires other treatment. [Clay is very beneficial occasionally in small quantities, when snow is on the ground, or horses are so confined that they can not get to the ground; or a few roots with the dirt at tached to them. But one must be careful not to give so many as to cause scouring.]

Wind-sucking and Crib-biting are spoken of in connexion with the management of defective and diseased horses.