ON THE Cl-CONOMY OF THE STABLE. Ill 



prevent the too great length of the toe ; in 

 very dry feafons, and hard paftures, and where 

 horfes are much driven by the flies, their feet 

 will demand conftant attention, or they may 

 come up with the cruft fo fplintered and da- 

 maged, as fcarcely to afford fufficient hold for 

 a flioe. If a fervant be fent to infpeft horfes 

 at grafs, and there fliould be a necefiity for 

 employing a country blackfmith, care fliould 

 be taken to reftrain him from his favourite 

 operation upon the frog, the binders, or the 

 lole. 



The erafs of the falt-marflies is univerfallv 

 celebrated for its alterative . and reftorative 

 qualities ; it powerfully provokes the different 

 fccretions at firft, until having become habitual 

 to the conftitution, it nourifhcs in the fame 

 degree : the farriers fay, it will cure every 

 malady of the horfe except rouennefs ; and 

 thefe do6iors imitate their betters, who v/hen 

 they have ineffe6lually exhaufted the whole 

 ^fcul apian art upon a patient, alv/ays fend 

 him to Bath. Thofe paftures within reach of 

 the London manure, are deemed infalubrious 

 on that account, as being forced and rank ; the ' 

 gramineous produft of low, fenny foils, is alfo 

 i'our, and defective in nourifhment ; fweet, her- 

 baceous, upland grafs having in all accounts, 

 the preference for horfes : hilly paftures are 



preferable. 



