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and effect. Purges vulgarly called physic, form another requisite 

 generally indispensable, where condition is required, and the animal 

 expected to be kept from the causes of disease. Purging to the high- 

 fed Horse, is both specific and prophylactic, and they who talk and 

 write against the necessity of physic for Horses, or men living in a 

 state of luxury, must close their eyes upon myriads of everlastingly 

 recurring facts. 



A peck of corn per day, is necessary to keep a hackney in good 

 condition for work, and some may require five or six quarterns. The 

 single feed is one quartern or half a peck, according to circumstances. 

 To the Horse which parts easily with his excrement, a handful of the 

 small, fair horse beans, or double that quantity of white pease, should 

 be allowed in a quartern feed. Which, or a small quantity of the 

 chaff of hay, is also useful to such as are apt to swallow their corn 

 insufficiently chewed ; for in truth, notwithstanding all which has been 

 said in favour of the practice, it still remains a doubt with practical 

 observers, whether broken or ground corn, is not more liable to be 

 swallowed without mastication by the Horse, than tliat which is whole. 

 I have tried ground corn for years together, and my opinion remains 

 in favour of that which is whole, excepting with young and tender, or 

 old and decayed mouths. Cart-horses are sometimes fed entirely with 

 beans, which are doubtless a strong and heartening food, but apt to 

 surfeit and produce the grease and scratches, the common method 

 therefore, of allowing bran with the beans, is judicious. 



The green food dispensed to Horses in the stable, should be fresh, 

 or it will produce wind and gripes. When Horses are fed entirely upon 

 green meat, their condition should be attended to, and if they appear 

 griped or pursive, or scour, it will be necessary to allow a part dry 

 fodder or corn. Tares or vetches are very succulent, and supposed to 

 fill Horses with blood ; tare hay or haulm will often occasion gripes, and 

 is said to absorb much moisture in damp weather. Carrots are given 

 with much benefit, four or five weeks in a season, to high-fed hacks, 

 hunters and coach-horses, or to racers whilst out of training. They 

 are both nourishing and cleansing, promoting the secretions, and giving 

 a beautiful gloss to the coat. A feed of carrots, half a peck to a peck,, 



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