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barm, and bake it in great loaves. With the 

 coarser bread feed your runner in his resting days, 

 and with the finer against the days of his exercise 

 and greatest labour. 



*' The times of his feeding, upon the days of his 

 rest, must be after his coming from water in the 

 morning ; an hour after mid-day ; after his evening 

 watering ; and at ten o'clock at night. But upon 

 his labouring days, two hours after he is thoroughly 

 cold, outwardly and inwardly ; afterwards as afore- 

 said. 



*' Let his hay be dry and short ; if it be sweet 

 no matter how coarse it is, for if it be ro^agh it 

 will scour his teeth. As for the proportion of his 

 food, I need not prescribe a quantity, since you 

 must allow him according to the goodness or bad- 

 ness of his stomach. 



" His exercise ought to be thrice a week, and it 

 must be more or less according to the condition 

 of his body ; for if it be foul, exercise him mode- 

 rately to break his grease ; if clean, you may do as 

 you think fit, having a care that you discourage 

 him not, nor abate his mettle ; and after every 

 exercise give him that night, or the next morning, 

 a scouring. The best I know of to purge a horse 

 from all grease, glut, or filth whatever, is this : 

 take three ounces of aniseeds, a dram and a half of 

 carthamus, two drams of fenugreek-seed, and of 

 brimstone an ounce and a half; beat all these to a 

 fine powder, and searse them ; then take of salad 



