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ment, and you can use him satisfactorily, do not part 

 with the horse, but keep up the wet feeding, and as long 

 as he gets no worse he may last you a long time. An in- 

 stance : I bought a fine mare before the war (at the begin- 

 ning of it) for ninety-five dollars, used her for troop 

 service, had her pretty well broken ; then having no more 

 use for her, sold her for one hundred and fifty dollars; 

 she was next sold for five hundred, held by the party a 

 few months, pronounced unsound, and sent to auction. I 

 bought her, a heavy mare, for one hundred and twenty- 

 seven dollars, and, with the treatment above described, 

 rode and drove her, and jumped her as high as any- 

 body's horse could get up with my weight, and she 

 never suffered, and in fact no one knew it. If, however, 

 they get worse instead of better, the sooner you sell 

 the horse the less trouble you will have, as a bad case 

 may run into farcy. 



