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subject under its distinct head (and to wliich 

 the reader is referred), a few additional ob- 

 servations become immediately applicable 

 upon a subject of so much consequence, 

 which cannot be too clearly explained, or 

 too perfectly understood. For ti?ne, ohserva^ 

 thn, and experience, having sufficiently de- 

 monstrated how ver}' much the viscidity of 

 the blood is increased by coarse, full, dind foul 

 feedino;, there need be no hesitation in af- 

 firming the state of the lungs, (or, in a more 

 familiar phrase, the state of the zcind), to be 

 more or less affected by the large or s?nall 

 quantities of chaff*, or gross latter crop of 

 clover hay, consumed by this breed of horses 

 during their constant work ; particularly in 

 fmrmers stables, where a great part of their 

 aliment consists of those articles with a small 

 proportion of corn. Of chatf thus used and 

 intermixed v\^ith the corn, let it be under- 

 stood there are different kinds, as the chaff 

 oixcheaf, oats, and a compound of hay and 

 wheat straw cut together ; of all which it is 

 hardly possible to ascertain the most pre- 

 judicial. To these the winter consumption 

 of peas-haum and barley-straw may be rec- 

 koned no inconsiderable additions, the urcat 



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