ON THE CECONOMY OF THE STABLE. 9I 



two or four tea-fpoons full make a dofe, and 

 care ous^ht to be taken that the ball be not too 

 large. 



I have not engaged in the prefent Treatife to 

 meddle with the bufmefs of the breeding ftud, 

 but will copy the following little anecdote of a 

 mare and foal, from my memorandums, as it is 

 of the nature to afford a caution againft accidents 

 which too frequently occur. In April 1789, 1 ex- 

 pelled a Young Marik mare to foal every hour. 

 The mare fed upon the common, and from an 

 improvident defire of faving a little grafs, inftead 

 of committing her fafe, at fuch a crifis, to a 

 fmall paddock, according to the advice of per- 

 fons of difcretion, I fuffered her to remain by 

 night upon the common. I v/as called up one 

 bluftering and rainy morning, at four o'clock, 

 and informed by a friendly labourer, that my 

 mare had foaled under (belter of a hedge, and 

 that the foal had rolled into the ditch and was 

 drowned. It was at no great dillance from the 

 houfe, and we wheeled the foal home in a bar- 

 row. It was a fine colt foal, but (liff, and to 

 all appearance had been fuffocated with the 

 mud and water. By way of experiment, I or- 

 dered the foal to be wrapped in a blanket and 

 laid before a good fire, and by rubbing and 

 chafing him for upwards of an hour, we at 

 length recalled the vital prmciple, which had 

 not really fled, but only remamed in fufpence. 



His 



