30 FEEDING- 



where the horfes are thought worthy the 



attention of master or man. 



And It is equally fo in refped to the articles 

 oifood. Horfes are as often out of condition 

 (in inferior llables) from the effedt of improper 

 food as from natural difeafes. Refpe(5ling the 

 moft proper food to a horfe in health, no 

 diverfity of opinions can be fupported unlefs by 



FOOLS or MADMEN. 



Experience, that inevitable touchftone of 

 tf^uthy demonlirates, to an indifputable cer- 

 tainty, the acknowledged preference oi fpring-- 

 grajs in the field; ovf^weet oatSy found beans y 

 2xA fragrant hajy in the liable, to every other 

 article that imagination can invent or novelty 

 fupply. 



And here it becomes unavoidably neceflary 

 to introduce a circumftance that conftantly 

 occurs In the courfe of obfervation % at leaft ta 

 thofe v/ho, entering a multiplicity of ftableSy 

 wifh' to enlarge their information or exercife 

 their judgment. Hov^ very common is it to 

 find a confdltation held upon the appearance 

 of a favourite horfe, who, to the fupprife of 



the 



