II 6 Mr, V Hommedieu on raiftng Calves, 



I am induced to believe that there is fomething more nouri/liing 

 in dew than is commonly imagined. On obferving a horfe 

 owned by a perfon in my neighbourhood, for a number of 

 years, to be very fat in the fummer feafon, although it was 

 the only horfe the owner had, and was worked fteadily, and 

 went in very poor paflure, I afked the owner by what means 

 he kept his horfe fo much fatter than his neighbours, who 

 made ufe of much better paflures. He informed me that he 

 gave the horfe no grain of any kind, but kept him in a. very- 

 poor palture adjoining a. creek where creek-thatch grew on 

 fand-flats : that the horfe got but very little from the upland,, 

 but fed on the thatch at nights and in the mornings, while 

 the dew remained, but after the dew was exhaled, he would 

 cat no more of the thatch, but return to the upland, and: 

 if at liberty, would take, his refl the bigger part of the day. 



Horfes in general will not eat this thatch, and it is very 

 poor fodder for cattle, although it anfwers with the help of 

 ether fodder, to keep them through the winter. The owner, 

 further informed me^ that before his horfe had learnt to feed 

 on thatch, which was two feafons, he continued to be quite 

 poor in the paflure in which he then went,. No perfon 

 acquainted with this fedge, will fuppofe that a horfe can be. 

 kept on it in any -tolerable o_rder, with common water ; and; 

 it mufl be fuppofed that the dew added very materially to ths. 

 HQuriiliment. of the horfe.. 



