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ilie carelessness of boys, or inadvertency of 

 servants (in that infernal system of hard 

 GALLOPING imniediately AFTER water), than 

 by any other means whatever ; in fact, it is 

 a plan so palpably contradictory and de- 

 structive, that it should never be permitted 

 by the master or adopted by the groom. And 

 there can remain no shadow of doubt but 

 this complaint in every class of horses may 

 be mostly prevented by proper care and at- 

 tention in the superintendants ; the irregu- 

 larities, in food, ivater, and the inconsisten- 

 cies already pointed out, contributing much 

 more to the original cause of such defect 

 than the erroneous formation of parts so %- 

 pothetically asserted by those who have wrote 

 before upon this subject. 



Another circumstance requiring the mi- 

 nute inspection and attentive observation of 

 every proprietor of draft horses is, that in- 

 jvu^ious practice of country servants (called 

 carters) in giving large quantities of aniseed, 

 diapenta, fenu-greek, elecampane, and other 

 powders, intermixed with ihe'iv food, upon a 

 weak and ill-founded opinion that those ar- 

 ticles make their teams appear line in coat 



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