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be labouring under constitutional disease, as inflamed 

 lungs, or the distemper ; or when these paddocks are 

 not used for any 'of the above purposes, they may be 

 useful to turn the hacks into, to take the staleness out of 

 them. But as colts, as well as horses, are apt on being 

 turned out to range wildly about, it may be advisable 

 to bank these four paddocks round, to prevent them 

 from coming in contact with the walls, and thereby in- 

 juring themselves. 



These banks placed round where the wall and ground 

 form a junction, on a basis of from three to four feet, 

 raised against the walls in a gradual, but oblique direc- 

 tion, and of the same height as the basis, may have 

 the desired effect — that of preventing the horses cpming 

 in contact widi the walls. I strongly recommend this 

 plan of banking, as I remember a very fine colt having 

 his shoulder fractured, fiom coming suddenly in contact 

 with the wall of the paddock in which he was ranging. 

 In one of the outer paddocks, of fifty-five feet each in 

 width, should be grown tares, vetches, lucerne, or clover- 

 grass. The seeds of these plants should be sown on 

 different portions of the ground, of sufficient dimen- 

 sions to supply two or three horses at a time, for ten 

 days or a fortnight, with a succession of crops, and at 

 intervals during the summer. I allude to such horses 

 as are stationary during the summer, as many of those 

 at Newmarket are; and if it could be done, these green 

 meats, as they are termed, should be grown till autumn, 

 at which time the country plate horses generally arrive 

 at the home stables, and to them, this sort of food 



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