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\JF all ihe subjects connected with the management of Horses, 

 there is none, I believe., with which more extravagant notions afe 

 associated, in the minds of many, than this which respects tlie 

 article of Water. It is atcII known, that many of the diseases of 

 Horses, are attributed to the quality of the water which they drink, 

 from that proneness which exists in the minds of those who have the 

 care of them, to account for all the derangements which take place 

 in their health. Now, the fact is, that the quality of water, has 

 but little to do either with the diseases of Horses, or their general 

 condition, in comparison of the circumstance of its quantity, and 

 ihe number of times at which it is given to them. Not that 1 mean 

 it to be inferred from this remark, that there is no difference in the 

 effects of different waters, upon the stomach and digestive organs of 

 the Horse, which is by no means what 1 am prepared to maintam, but 

 merely to have it implied that it is the management of water, both as (o 

 the quantity in which it is given, and the periods of giving i', which 

 chiefly occasions diseases and derangements in the health of Horses. 



