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but no hay. At nine o'clock give him a 

 lock of well-dufted hay, which being eaten, 

 water the horfe : leave a farther fupply of hay, 

 and return at twelve to give the noon-feed of 

 corn. At three give more hay, and fuff'er him 

 to drink again. At night oiler him water pre- 

 vioufly to his laft meal. Vegetius and Blunde- 

 ville advife to feed a horfe in frnall portions at 

 a time, particularly with the coarfe and roi.igh 

 garbage, which it is the cuftom to give to cart- 

 horfes, left, by filling themfelves too fuddenly 

 and greedily, digeftion be impeded, and furfeit 

 enfue. AfTuredly, we have little fault to find 

 with the old writers in this important refpe61. 



There exift two difputed cafes in ftable oeco- 

 nomy, to which it is neceflary to advert ; for 

 my part, I think them by no means of difficult 

 folution. The gallop after water, and the 

 ratio of feeding horfes which labour but little, 

 or occafionally. Firft of the firft— It is re- 

 markable that our early Englilh writers con- 

 demn the gallop after water, and call it a 

 French cuftom ; whilft SoUeyfel, and the French 

 writers of the laft. century, equally decry it, 

 but infift on its being an Englifti one. It is 

 undoubtedly in oppofition to ibund theory, 

 and for that reafon alone ought to be difcon- 

 tinued ; at the fame time I muft acknowledge, 

 I never obferved any ill effeth to arife from 

 the pra6]ice. In the waterings of race-horfes, 



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