ON THE GECONOMY OF THE STABLE, llg 



upon the faint and unfubftantial herbage of 

 the feafon ; but even thefe would be better by 

 all the coft, for more liberal keeping ; others 

 will make a fhift barely to exift under fuch 

 harfli treatment, and a random view of this 

 leads inconfiderate people, who have a gene- 

 ral idea of the benefits of a winter's run, to 

 commit the barbarous folly of expofmg ema- 

 ciated and thin-fl^inned horfes, perhaps juft 

 taken from a hot liable, upon open heaths or 

 marfhes, where they are literally tortured to 

 death by the cold ; and I have myfelf feen fuch 

 dying by inches, under all the horrors of an 

 intermittent. Omne nimium vertitur in vitiuni: 

 Nature (brinks from extremes, and expands 

 herfelf to the moderate and gradual applica- 

 tion only of the moil proper remedies. Ex- 

 perience fully proves, that all the domeflic 

 animals of Northern climates fhould be fliel- 

 tered by night, during the winter feafon. 



In a former chapter, I have exhorted the 

 owners of good horfes, who have little or no 

 ufe for them during the winter, to fend them to 

 paflure, as a material branch of the humane 

 and ceconomical plan of lengthening the pe- 

 riod of their fervices : all that I have need to 

 add farther upon this head, is, to give a cau- 

 tion that frequent infpe6lion be made as to 

 their treatment whilfl at flraw-yard, and that 

 it be by no m,eans omitted, to promife a re- 



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