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are fair feeders, and do their work well, I 

 could never find that a less portion than seven 

 pecks or two bushels of corn, and two tru*jses 

 (one hundred weight) of hay, per week, 

 would keep them up to a proper degree of 

 strength and appearance. This is the least 

 quantity of either, that any horse ojf my own 

 consumes in the hunting season ; which al- 

 lowance will constitute some entertaimnent, 

 in contrast with the weekly subsistence of 

 those metropolitan stables, so particularly al- 

 luded to in page 199 of the work before us. 

 In this calculation, the reader must be in- 

 formed, there is no conditional reference or 

 allusion to horses of weak appetites, that are 

 off their food with every trifling exertion, or 

 extra fatigue ; they are by no means entitled 

 to a stall in the stable of an experienced 

 sportsman, who, when such accidentally fall 

 into his possession, will undoubtedly soon 

 extricate himself from the incumbrance, 

 without the least necessity for ray recon^- 

 mendation. 



WATEtt is so equally and essentially re- 

 quisite to the very existence of life^ and 

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