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bj considerations of decency and gratitude, to take a blanket 

 from your own bed, if need be, in order to furnisb your faith- 

 ful servant a proper protection after bringing you through 

 the pitiless storm, over many a weary mile, safely to youi 

 own home, even should you then have to sit up half the 

 night to keep up the fire in your own room, that you might 

 not suffer from cold. 



Great care should be regularly exercised in regard to food. 

 Under no circumstances should the heated horse be given 

 corn. If, unfortunately, nothing else is at hand, better let 

 him stand for an hour and a half, until the heat subsides, 

 his blood cools, and his stomach is in proper condition to 

 receive such stimulating food ; and, meantime, give him a 

 little water, and some salt in his trough to lick. If hay or 

 any soft feed is at hand, give him this first. A bran-mash, 

 some meal, or some cut feed, will be the best. We say again 

 that a horse which has performed severe labor during the 

 day, and at night goes to the stable hot and tired, should 

 never have any corn until morning, if any other food can 

 possibly be procured. 



ENLARGED GLANDS. 



One of the forms of disease specially treated of in this 

 chapter, is what may be classed under the general head of 

 enlarged glands. It embraces those swellings of the glands 

 of the mouth and throat that are unaccompanied by any 

 severer malady, such as they are so often the mere symp- 

 toms of. While this condition may not be a specific or per- 

 manent disorder, but simply the temporary effects of cold 

 and exposure, its tendency is toward that termination. It 

 should, therefore, be watched carefully, and, if it lingers 

 about at all, it should be treated much in the same way as 

 will be directed in the next section for 



SWELLED THROAT. 



This general term, we are persuaded, will better suit the 

 farmer's uses than more minute divisions of highly-educated 



