112 ON THE CECONOMY OF THE STABLE. 



preferable, and in a ftill higher degree for 

 foals. 



In our fortunate climate, fo free of dange- 

 rous extremes, a horfe may run all the fummer 

 in defiance of heat or infeds, and will be much 

 better in health than he could pofTibly be kept 

 in the flable ; but if only the ufual period of 

 foiling be allowed him, that is to fay, a month 

 or two, no doubt but every one would choofe 

 to have it early, whilft the grafs is young, and 

 the heat moderate ; choice fliould alfo be made 

 of paftures well fhaded and well watered. 



Cutting grafs, and carting it to the liable, is 

 an immenfe faving upon a farm, greater, in- 

 deed, than I could conceive, until I repeatedly 

 made the experiment, the quantity of dung alfo 

 raifed by that means is an important confi de- 

 ration ; but the attendant inconvenience is the 

 keeping horfes (hut up in a hot and unwhole- 

 fome ftable, at the very feafon when lying 

 abroad is fo natural and beneficial to them ; 

 in truth, poor animals, it is a trefpafs upon 

 their health and their feelings, it is abridging 

 the too fcanty reward of their never-ending 

 labours. 



Every body knows that there are falt- 

 marfhes, a few miles to the eaftward of the 

 metropolis, where horfes are received ; and, I 

 believe, intelligence thereupon is ufually to be 



obtained 



