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wafting and decay, I fhould fuppofe benefit 

 might accrue from maflies made of boiled rice, 

 with an addition of bran or fine pollard, to 

 prevent its too aftringent effects I do not 

 underftand the ufual routine of management 

 for horfes of this defcription, but fuppofe that 

 fome few of them have the benefit of being 

 occafionally turned off to grafs. It is certain 

 that a good horfe might be made to laft many 

 years, by fuch treatment, and to earn more 

 money than three or four bad, or ill-managed 

 ones. 



It would be perhaps better, if all poft-horfes 

 wore round or bar-fhoes, merely by way of 

 obtaining a reft for the frog which fupports 

 the tendon, fince thefe horfes are fo liable to 

 ftrains in the finews. 



All confiderable proprietors of Horfes 

 fhould make a point of giving encouragement 

 to thofe gentlemen of the faculty, who have 

 the good fenfe and humanity not to be above 

 veterinary practice. Surely their interefts muft 

 be much more fafe in fuch hands, than in thofe 

 of ignorant blackfmiths. The mifchiefs done 

 by thefe laft throughout the country, in the 

 Gngle article of firing poft-horfes, is immenfe. 



I have often thought it would be advan- 

 tageous for a coach-mafter to agree with an 

 able furgeon to attend his flock of horfes by 

 tke year; the bare advice of fuch a perfon, 



would, 



