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added to each dose of physic. If he does not feed well, there 

 is probably a torpid state of the digestive apparatus, produced 

 by a bad or deficient diet. lu such a case, mild physic is 

 still proper, and, in addition, the horse may have a few tonic 

 balls between the setting of one dose and the administration 

 of another. Four drachms of gentian, two of ginger, and one 

 of tartar emetic, made into a ball with honey, forms a very 

 useful tonic. One of these may be given every day, or every 

 second day, for a fortnight. If the horse does not improve 

 under these, he requires the aid of a veterinary surgeon. 



The mode op grazing farm-horses requires some notice. 

 Other horses are sent to pasture, and with few exceptions, re- 

 main at it for days and weeks without interruption. Those 

 employed in agriculture are pastured in three different ways. 

 By one, the horse is constantly at grass, except during his 

 hours of work ; he is put out at night, is brought in the 

 next morning, goes to work for two or three hours, and is 

 then returned to pasture for about two hours ; in the afternoon 

 he again goes to work, which may be concluded at five or six 

 o'clock, and from that time till he is wanted on the next morn- 

 ing he is kept at grass. By another mode, the horse is turned 

 out only at night. During the day he is soiled in his stable 

 at his resting intervals. When work is over for the day, he 

 is sent out till the next morning By the third mode, which 

 is generally allowed to be the best, the horse is turned to grass 

 only once a week. He is pastured from the time his work is 

 finished on Saturday night till it commences again on Monday 

 mprning. 



If the horses have any thing like work, the first two modes 

 are decidedly objectionable. There is much expenditure of 



