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ing their stable condition, after a long run at grass. Now, one of 

 the obstacles to this recovery may, most assuredly, be placed to the ac- 

 count, of the management of water. 



For, if, as I have before observed. Horses that are kept out at 

 grass, are found to drink frequently during hot weather ; is it reason- 

 ably to be expected, that the digestive process can go on well, when 

 the animal is suddenly deprived of that soft succulent food, which he 

 naturally delights in, and which makes comparatively small demands 

 upon the powers of the stomach, and being brought into a hot stable, 

 is not only put all at once upon dry food, but is permitted to drink, at 

 most, only twice a day ? Ignorance and prejudice, I am aware, will 

 probably smile at the question, but common sense and candour, will 

 answer in the negative. 



Wc all know that it is a common thing for persons who go to re-^ 

 side in hot climates, to express the sensations they experience, from 

 ihe conflict, which their systems endure, by the phmse of undergoing 

 a seasoning, which seasoning, though confined almost entirely to the 

 cft'ccts of heat alone, is often known to shake even the strongest 

 "Constitution, to its very foundation. But, Horses aic expected to 

 l>ear with impunity, such a complicated kind of seasoning, as com- 

 pared with this which relates to the affair of temperature alone, may 

 be called a seasoning with a vengeance. For, is not theiis, a season- 

 ing of hot air, a seasoning of foul air_, a seasoning of diet, of 

 water, of cioathiug, of confinement, a seasoning, m fact, of every 

 ihin^ which relates to the fuuclions, and the hca'th of the animal. 

 So, that we ought not to wonder at frequent attacks, of (what I call) 

 the stable fever, when Horses, just taken up from griass, arc sud' 

 denly put upon tlie ordinary diet, and system of glables, or that they 



