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are Fair Feeders, and do their work v/ell ; I 

 could never find that a lefs portion than {tvcrx 

 pecks or two bufhels of corn, and two trulTes 

 (one hundred weight) of hay, per week, 

 would keep them up to a proper degree of 

 flrength and appearance. This is the leaft 

 quantity of either, that any horfe of my own 

 confumes in the hunting feafon ; which al- 

 lowance will conftitute fome entertainment, 

 in contrail with the weakly fubiiftence of 

 thofe metropolitan ilablcs, fo particularly al- 

 luded to in page 199 of the work before us. 

 In this calculation, the reader muft be in- 

 formed, there is no conditional reference or 

 allufion to horfes of wea^ appetites , that are 

 off their food with every trifling exertion^ 

 or extra fatigue ; they are by no means en- 

 titled to a flail in the ftablcof an experienced 

 fportfman, w^ho^ when fuch accidentally fall 

 into his pofTeiTion, will undoubtedly foon 

 extricate himfelf from the incumbrance 

 without the leaft necefTity for my recom- 

 mendation. 



Water is fo equally and efTentially re- 

 quilite to the very exiflence of life, and 



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