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systematic care and rational mode of ma- 

 nagement, a few months perhaps makes him 

 one of the best and most valuable horses in 

 thekina;dom. 



This is a circumstance that happens so 

 very constantly in the equestrian fluctuation 

 of fortune, and the assertion so repeatedly 

 justified by ocular demonstration and practi- 

 cal experience, that I stand not in the least 

 fear of a contrariety of opinions upon so con- 

 spicuous a part of the subject. 



The ill effects of the stable treatment 

 we have hitherto described, would be still 

 more injurious did high feeding constitute a 

 part of the system we presume to condemn ; 

 but a .superabundance of food is what I by 

 no means place to the inconsistency of the 

 account. Prudence (divested oi self-interest) 

 powerfully prompts the parties concerned, 

 to perceive the absurdity of over-feeding horses 

 whose state so little requires it. Stable- 

 keepers are not so destitute of penetra- 

 tion, as to be taught by me, the '^ folly of 

 feeding horses that clout work J' Oats are 

 ^not only unnecessary but superfluous ; hay 



