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at four years old than fhe has been this win- 

 ter. And if hunters could be turned out on 

 leifure-days, when the weather is tolerably 

 fine, into a fpacious place to hay and corn, 

 without grafs, I am of opinion it would be of 

 great fervice to them. Horfes which are un- 

 avoidably expofed to tranfitions from heat to 

 cold as hunters frequently are, in faunter- 

 ing by the fide of a cover after a hard run 

 ought, indifputably, to ftand in a cool ftable., 

 and to be expofed to the open air on leifure- 

 days, fo far as the {late of perfect, health and 

 wgffur will permit : but no farther."* 



I make no comment on the foregoing facts 

 and reflections. I infert them as a caution 

 to the inexperienced : and as hints to thofe 

 who wifli to hit the happy medium of treat- 

 ment. 



Turning out horfes to grafs in the fpring. I 

 met with an idea in this Diftrict refpecting 

 the firft turning out of a horfe entirely to 

 grafs, which deferves to be generally known. 



When a horfe is thrown up, or turned out 

 at nights to gvafs, in the fpring of the year, 

 it is common to choofe nie forenoon of a fine 

 day to do ic in. The natural confequence is,* 



the 



