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fubjeft under its diftindt head (and to which 

 the reader is referred), a few additional obfer* 

 vations become immediately applicable upon 

 a fubjedl of fo much confequence, which can- 

 not be too clearly explained, or too perfecflly 

 underftood. For timey obfervatioriy and expert-- 

 encey having fufficiently demonftrated how very 

 much the vifcidity of the blood is increafed by 

 coarfey fully and yiz^/ feeding, there need be no 

 hefitation in affirming the ftate of the IwigSy 

 (or, in a more familiar phrafe, the ftate of the 

 ivindy) to be more or lefs affedted by the large 

 or fmall quantities of chaffy or grofs latter crop 

 of clover hay, confumed by this breed of horfes 

 during their conftant work; particularly in 

 formers' Jiabksy where a great part of their 

 aliment coniifts of thofe articles with a fmall 

 proportion of corn. Of chaff thus ufed and. 

 intermixed with the corn^ let it be underftood 

 there are different kinds, as the chaff of wheat y 

 oatSy and a compound of hay and wheat ftraw 

 cut together; of all which it is hardly pcfiible 

 to afcertain the moft prejudicial. To thefe 

 the winter confumpti^n of peas-haum and 

 barley-ftraw may be reckoned no inconfider-^ 

 able additions, the great quantity mafticated to 

 •gratify the appetite affording fo little nutri« 



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