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will be able to eat hard corn, which will be 

 necessary to support their strength for work. 

 In times when green food is desirable, but 

 cannot be had early enough in the spring, and 

 horses require aperients, mix with the corn a 

 few raw potatoes fresh sliced— and give them 

 but little water to drink ; carrots relax the 

 bladder too much. Horses must drink before 

 they eat corn, because if they drink afterwards, 

 the water swells the corn in their stomachs, and 

 thus many horses have suddenly died of suffo- 

 cation, which was supposed to have been colic. 



If from accidents induced by injudicious early 

 grazing, or from any other cause, horses' eyes 

 are diseased, and apt to discharge, bathe them — 

 not with either violent, or cold applications — but 

 with half a pint of hot water, which is suffi- 

 cient at each time, with four tea-spoonfuls of 

 brandy; it is frequently applied most gently 

 with a sponge by way of a warm bath to the 



