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and wash out mouths at least once every hour if roads are 

 dusty. From three o'clock until eight will put twenty-five 

 miles behind you, that will do for the first day and second. 

 After that they will be a little seasoned, and you can go 

 fifty-five to sixty a day without injury. Supposing you at 

 eight o'clock at your journey's end for that day, then do 

 as in the morning ; let them eat grass and roll if they will, 

 the former they will certainly if you give them the 

 chance. After putting in the stable, and wisping off and 

 rubbing legs, give hay again two pounds. That eaten, 

 water, and give six quarts of oats, or, if you can get it, 

 some middlings or rich ship-stuff; put two quarts of that 

 to four of oats for night's feed, wet it a little; then, 

 after all, give six pounds of hay, bed well, and leave them 

 for the night, after stopping their feet with cow-droppings. 

 Do this every night, as it will keep their feet delightfully 

 cool, and they will feel so much better for it in the morning. 

 Your groom should be up at three o'clock, clean and feed; 

 only give two quarts of oats before starting at four, no 

 hay. Then pursue the same course as the first day, and 

 if you wish to increase the distance to fifty-five miles, 

 drive five more in the morning and five more in the even- 

 ing; divide the ten miles. By this careful mode you can 

 drive a good pair of horses five hundred or one thousand 

 miles without the slightest injury to themselves, and with 

 great pleasure to the driver. 



BOG, OR BLOOD SPAVIN, 



was omitted in treating on bone spavin. It does not 

 always cause lameness; in fact, seldom. When it does, 

 if the horse is an old friend, try removing it by absorp- 

 tion, it is the only reasonable way ; if that will not do, 

 nothing will. 



