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they do not ftand too much in their dung, 

 which heats and helps to founder their feet. 

 If any hurt happen to a horfe, which work 

 may aggravate, he fhould be withdrawn in- 

 ftantly, in the firfl ftage of the mifchief ; if his 

 cafe require a fituation different from that of a 

 crowded town liable, he (hould be fent forth- 

 with down to a farmer's yard, where he may 

 be well fheltered, and carefully attended. I 

 have feen fifty cafes of this kind, in which, from 

 the indolence and irrefolution of the owner, and 

 the knavery and ignorance of his blackfmith, a 

 horfe has been kept at an ufelefs expence in 

 town, for months together, till at laft he has 

 either been fold for a trifle, totally loft, or fent 

 down into the country to be cured. 



Nothing can look fo abominable or difgrace- 

 ful to conliderable owners, as their horfes be- 

 ing wrung in the moulders, by the collar, or 

 chafed by the harnefs. A regular fyflem of 

 management and preventive care, are, in thefe 

 refpecls, all in all. Collars and harnefs, fuf- 

 fered to remain fodden and hardened with 

 fweat, water, and dirt, mud infallibly fret the 

 tougheft fkin. All accidents of this kind (hould 

 be attended to in the firfl inftance ; an hour's 

 delay may produce the trouble of months. 



The leifure afforded by the refervation of 

 the feventh day, is, or ought to be, peculiarly 

 ufeful to the poorer proprietors, the horfes of 



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