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Drher~Continental scientific men have amply 

 proved. 



Some people have the mistaken idea that 

 dry bran should always be damped by 

 sprinkling it with water, before giving it to a 

 horse ; because its floating particles, so they 

 say, will go up his nostrils and injuriously 

 affect his organs of breathing. I have never 

 found a single case of this to occur with the 

 many thousands of feeds of dry bran which I 

 have seen given to horses in feeding troughs 

 and ordinary mangers ; although the presence 

 j of dry bran in a nose-bag might make an 

 I animal sneeze.lJ' A valid objection to the 

 wetting of bran, as I have already indicated, 

 is that the damper it is, the less will the horse 

 chew it, and the less saliva will he secrete to 

 mix with it. 



