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fluids of digestion they should always be split, 

 that the internal portion or kernel may be acted 

 upon, and never given alone or in large quantities. 

 They are apt to accumulate in the intestines, 

 where they set up disorder and remain almost 

 unacted upon for a considerable time, until 

 severe and intractable diarrho3a comes on, and 

 from which death may result. 



A large firm not long ago, desirous of saving 

 money, began the wrong way, by purchasing 

 locust beans and lentils mixed with all kinds of 

 unknown rubbish. These were given indiscrimi- 

 nately to all the animals while doing the hardest 

 work. The digestive organs failed to extract 

 the nutritious portions, disorder fell among them, 

 and several, after only 24 hours' illness, died, 

 indicating all the signs of a blood poison. In 

 former times, when little or no attention was 

 paid to the feeding of horses, such an occurrence 

 would have been looked upon as an epidemic, and 

 met by bleeding and physicking the whole of the 

 healthy animals, by which the mortality would 

 doubtless be increased. In this case the sagacity 

 of the gentleman who was consulted immediately 

 caused a detection of the error, and thus put a 

 stop to the destructive disorder. 



Condiments. Many of these compounds, all 

 said to possess wonderful properties, are at present 

 appearing in the market. Their principal com- 

 position appears to be oil-cake, ground locust 

 beans, fenugreek, sulphur, common salt, &c. 



