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difFerence betwixt pond or river, and pump or 

 well water, as to its hardness, may be easily- 

 known by washing the hands with either of 

 the latter, which will be found to be too hard 

 even with the assistance of soap. 



To choose good hay you must examine it 

 not only by its fragrance, but observe also that 

 it be the long-jointed or knotty grass. Any 

 hay well got up, without rain, will look and 

 smell well, but the same quantity of the single 

 pointed grass, without joints, will not afford 

 half the nourishment as the jointed, knotty grass 

 above mentioned. The former, if you chew 

 the joints, will taste sweet, is full of agreeable 

 juice, and has grown on a rich and good soil ; 

 but the latter will afford no sap or juice, will 

 taste dry and harsh, and must have grown on a 

 poor, ill-managed soil. "When a horse "is 

 brought in from grass, he wants no physic or 

 purging, or at least very little, as it will be ob- 

 served that ail horses at grass are continually in 

 a relaxed state, if pastured on a good soil, and 

 their urine is of a greenish colour. When 

 horses are taken in from grass they should first 

 be fed on green, well got-up hay, because sud- 

 den alterations in their aliments are bad, and 



