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work upon the road : growing colts of dif-* 

 ferent kinds, as well as brood mares and 

 foals, who all equally enjoyed a participation 

 of the experiment in every kind of way it 

 could be offered them ; tending fufficiently to 

 juflify every thing I can pre fume to offer in 

 recommendation of the practice, more parti- 

 cularly with ftock required only in mproving 

 condition during the winter, and not deftined 

 to any kind of labour. 



In this jufl reprefentation, I beg by no 

 means to have m^y expreflions mifconftrued 

 or my meaning perverted, but defire it (hould 

 be generally underftood, I urge their utility 

 in applicable proportions as a cheap auxiliary 

 to other food, without indulging an idea of 

 their being ufed alone ; as well as to have it 

 held in remembrance, however ferviceable 

 and healthy they may have proved, and cer- 

 tainly are to the unemployed part of ftock, 

 it was never my intent to declare them ca- 

 pable of conftituting the bafis of nutrition and 

 fupport for horfes in conftant and laborious 

 work. On the contrary, knowing experi- 

 mentally the great expenfe of breeding, and 



how 



