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regard to time, excessive thirst will not usually 

 occur. 



Harness horses and hacks used on long jour- 

 neys are greatly relieved by small quantities of 

 water in which oatmeal or barley meal is sus- 

 pended, given when rest is allowed ; about two 

 quarts of water with a handful of the latter being 

 sufficient. 



Horses at rest should be watered at least three 

 or four times daily. 



The practice of putting nitre or other saline 

 materials in the water, is not to be carried on 

 indiscriminately. The advice of a veterinary 

 surgeon should guide upon that question. 



The purity of water is a question which should 

 always be established where animals are to be 

 kept, and particularly where new sources are 

 opened out. There is frequently greater reason 

 to attribute disease amoDgst stock, and even 

 human beings, to the water with which they are 

 supplied, than is generally known. 



In sinking wells never select any place near 

 to drains or ditches, privies, and manure heaps ; 

 avoid also gardens or fields. The danger which 

 occurs is traced to the entrance by percolation of 

 the compounds which are formed as the result of 

 putrefaction of manure and animal and vegetable 

 matter in general. Not long ago a whole 

 family was continually suffering from attacks of 

 fever, which, as usual, was for some time attributed 

 to the atmosphere. Subsequently it struck the 



