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herbage which is found growing among the grass is really 

 medicine for all cattle. 



Before concluding this chapter there is one other 

 thing I must not forget to mention. It often happens 

 that those who have a good horse will work it hard, in 

 some cases for years, without ever turning it out. Now 

 this is a great mistake : if a good carriage horse or even 

 a cab or 'bus horse were turned out as I have described in 

 a good meadow and went under the water treatment for 

 a month or six weeks every year, it would pay the 

 owner fifty per cent., as it would last almost as long again, 

 and what a delightful change for the poor horse. I have 

 noticed carriage horses particularly, belonging to gentlemen, 

 when the owner has been working them fairly hard and 

 arranges so that they are turned out for a month or six 

 weeks in the year, the animals always appear young and 

 their legs keep perfect. This is only a reasonable request 

 I am making for the horses. While it is a good thing 

 for the animals it is a good investment for the owner. 

 Horse dealers and men who are experienced in these 

 things know perfectly well that many horses are bought 

 from London and other large towns, turned out and put 

 under similar treatment to that I have described here, 

 and are sold for from six to ten times as much as they were 

 bought for in the first instance. All I have said in this 

 chapter may appear ridiculous to many people, but I 

 have just given a simple and practical method of curing 

 horses which go wrong in the joints or weak in the legs, 

 and if gentlemen and owners of horses will act upon the 



