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which are supposed to have been stripped 

 and laid by in the rough, with an old collar 

 on each of their heads. These horses are to 

 be fed and watered at the usual stable hours; 

 and from their having been living so long on the 

 most nutritious dry food, as plenty of the best of 

 corn, there may be some of them a good deal 

 heated in their constitutions; therefore, to gra- 

 dually cool them, and keep their bodies of a 

 proper temperature, as also to prevent them 

 from becoming too costive, we will at first give 

 them some mixed food, which shall consist of 

 three parts ; — of oats, say a quartern ; one double 

 handful of bran ; one of clean sliced carrots ; 

 and the other of chaff, cut from the very best of 

 hay only. This may be considered a large feed, 

 but I know it to be a wholesome one. The por- 

 tion of corn will be quite sufficient to nourish 

 the horse's system, on his first being laid by; 

 the bran will cool and keep the bowels in a 

 good state; the carrots are sweet, nutritious, 

 and easy of digestion, and race horses are very 

 fond of them; the chaff is also nutritious, and 

 causes the horse to masticate thoroughly the 

 corn he eats. But if those sort of horses are 

 plentifully fed on corn alone, on their first being 

 laid by, it will be very likely to keep up 



