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mucJU so, that the treatment we give an aged horse would 

 nearly destroy a colt. The first will bear a far greater 

 reduction of his bulk than a colt would, when to the eye 

 he would appear to be much in the same order; and a 

 horse will be in proper condition to trot, when his ribs 

 would show to the eye, while the colt's should be covered 

 with quite a coating of flesh. The reason is, that young 

 animals are not so fat inside as the older, and reducing 

 them in size would be accompanied by the wasting of the 

 muscles. Till colts can trot fast enough to fatigue them- 

 selves, there will be no necessity for sweating them further 

 than what is required for a complete purification of the 

 skin. I allude to sweating under clothes. As the weather 

 becomes warmer, they will sweat enough in their work to 

 answer all their purposes. I think that reducing May 

 much would further endanger her cutting her pasterns, 

 and she will have to be kept as high as is compatible with 

 clearness of wind. Now for the mash, which we will make 

 with three quarts of bran, two of oats, a table-spoonful of 

 salt, with boiling water enough (in which is placed the 

 sassafras) to saturate the mass, covering it so there will 

 be no escape of steam. It will become thoroughly cool 

 before it is fed, which is the object in making it so long 

 beforehand. Unless I want to steam the nasal passages, 

 as in distemper, or for the relief of colds, or other med- 

 icinal purposes, I prefer giving the mashes cold. 



PUPIL. May's shoes have not yet been changed for the 

 ones you recommended, and I have not speeded her since 

 the morning you saw her go. 



PEECEPTOE. I want to watch her closely before her 

 present shoes are removed, and will only keep the roll on 

 long enough to observe the changes it causes in her action. 

 I feel very confident that increasing the weight in her 

 hind shoes will have a beneficial effect, which experiment 

 will either prove to be correct, or confute that presumption, 



