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bargain by day light, particularly were the ring a known mark of a 

 stolen Horse. Nothing is more easy than to steal a Horse, and cer- 

 tanily some remedial plan, some lost-and-found office for stolen Horses 

 is a grand desideratum in this country. 



It will appear, that the breeding and management of Horses to a 

 good purpose, and indeed of all our domesticated animals, depends on 

 various observances and precautions, which have been dictated by an- 

 cient and accumulated experience : that the neglect of these precautions 

 sometimes even of the most seemingly trifling, may frustrate all hope 

 of success, which their due observance, hoAvever will, in general, secure 

 to a most satisfactory degree. Nul/iim viimen' abest, si sit prudent ia, 

 applies most forcibly and most happily, to these cases. 



Little is required to be said of the foals, whilst in high health and 

 galloping over the lawn, around their dams, to me, an enthusiast in 

 my affection to the Horse, one of the most pleasing sights in nature. 

 But they will be occasionally griped by the milk, and more especially 

 by the stale and pent milk of mares A^hich labour, and which are, in 

 consequence, separated for hours together from the foals. People 

 seldom attend to this disorder in foals, but their thriving is impeded 

 by it, and the giving a drench now and then, of rhubarb and magne- 

 sia, a good remedv, which may be taken abroad, is unattended with 

 either much trouble or expence. 



There is a very common defect in foals, an obliquity or wrong direc- 

 tion of the lower joints, by which the foot is turned either out or 

 in^vard, instead of pointing perfectly straight forward, as it ought. 

 This defect is generally found in one foot only, but sometimes in both, 

 and IS either hereditarj^ or the consequence of weakness, or of too 

 large a gro\vth of the body in proportion to the strength of its suppor- 

 ters. Osmers seems not thoroughly to have comprehended the nature 

 of this defect, or he would not have supposed it to arise merely from 

 the colt's being accustomed to stand in a faulty position, or that a reme- 

 dy might be found in the common manoeuvre of constantly paring down 

 one side of the foot. Certainly a remedy is most desirable, every joint 

 being necessarily weak, in proportion to its deviation from the right line, 

 and the value of every Horse decreased by the circumstances of his 



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