108 ON THE a CONOMY OF THE STABLE. 



limbs, an hour or two in the middle of his 

 leifure days, with his clothes and breaft-plate 

 upon him, is a praQice as excellent as it is 

 widely different from the foregoing. 



The next confideration is that of soiling 

 the horfe ; without poffibility of difpute, one 

 of the firft magnitude. To feed, lie, and roam 

 at large, upon the grafs of the earth, and to 

 have his- body conflantly v/etted with the dew 

 of heaven, is the natural flate of the horfe, in 

 vrhich, by confequence, he muft enjoy afupe- 

 rior portion of health and happinefs, and 

 without an occafionai recurrence to which, 

 he can only poffefs a partial and imperfeft 

 iliare of either. I fnall, therefore, in place 

 of ars[ument, apoeal to men's conftant expe- 

 lience, and without hehtation, lay it down as a 

 rule, that in order to cool and re-invigorate 

 the limbs, and purify the blood and juices of 

 horfes, and to enahle them to endure to their 

 lateR period, it is abfolutely neceffary that 

 they be allovved an annual run, of at leafl (ix 

 weeks at fpring grafs. Where horfes cannot 

 be fpared from the liable, the ufual fubftitute 

 in town, is to foil them at home upon green 

 tares ; this, at lead, furely never need be omit- 

 ted, being within the reach of almoft every 

 keeper of horfes. I will barely repeat the old 

 caution, to give the green meat frefli, becaufe, 

 if kept till its juices be exhaled, it not only 



becomes 



