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there was no possibility of his breaking out. 

 From this time on, so, long as the grass re- 

 mained good, no other, food was given him. 

 His stable door opened into this pasture, and it 

 was at all times left open, so that he could go 

 in and out at his pleasure. When the grass be- 

 gan to fail, on the. approach of winter, he was 

 given each day as much corn-fodder as he would 

 eat, but no grain whatever; always giving him 

 the run of the pasture. This treatment was 

 kept up until the 1st of February, the horse be- 

 ing confined to his stable only during the night, 

 and not then except in extremely cold or stormy 

 weather. He was thus kept about four months 

 without any grain whatever, but with all the 

 corn-fodder he would eat after the grass failed, 

 As a result of this treatment, without the ad- 

 ministraffion of medicines of any kind, he was 

 completely renovated and cured, and no symp- 

 toms of the disease ever appeared afterward. 



Another case, which affords a striking prac- 

 tical illustration of the effects of overfeeding 

 and lack of exercise in the stallion, is that of 

 an imported Percheron stallion, owned for 

 many years by the late Hon. Z. T. Chandler, of 

 Michigan. In July, 1876, the man in charge of 

 Mr. Chandler's stables wrote me concerning the 

 horse as follows: 



This horse was imported to Baltimore in 1868. Two years 

 after he was purchased by Mr. Chandler and sent to this 



