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gency do not render it impossible. If a horse 

 be costive, and he will eat them, raw potatoes 

 will purge him. Other vegetables, such as 

 carrots, vetches, green clover, and fresh cut 

 grass, are good purges for a horse, and will 

 keep him cool in the summer months. Horses 

 designed for ditterent kinds of work ought to 

 be exercised accordingly, in order to inure 

 them to what they are to perform. A race- 

 horse must be cantered and gaUoped slowly at 

 first, and brought on by degrees, until he is 

 put on his full speed. A hunter should be 

 accustomed to gallop cool and steady, and to 

 perform his leaps safe and wellj first by using 

 him to moderate ones, and gradually to increase 

 them till they are capable of surmounting those 

 obstacles to which they are liable in hunting. 

 Dragoon horses have a mode of exercise pecu- 

 liar to themselves. The best time to exercise 

 horses that do no work, is in the morning and 

 evening ; because, after long confinement in a 

 warm stable, they require fresh air and exercise 

 to brace their bodies, and to make them digest 

 their food •, and after having been well exer- 

 cised, they will feed and rest better the re- 

 mainder of the day. If a horse be exercised 



