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the corporeal weight in hay, and two-fifteenths in water, or 

 one-sixth in both together. 



Clover Hay. — In Philadelphia, this variety of hay is 

 commonly known by the name of " Cow^' hay, illustrating 

 the contempt the stablemen entertain for this excellent 

 variety of feed, in their judgment being only fit for the less 

 Qoble but nevertheless queenly cow, and as if utterly unfit 

 for the more noble and sagacious horse to feed or even look 

 upon. This is better illustrated by the craving of the dys- 

 peptic and the sick for the plain and not over-substantial 

 but healthy dinner of the poor- 

 It is at all times questionable policy to constantly persist 

 in feeding with material that costs more, but predisposes to 

 disease, especially of the liver, A healthy liver is rarely 

 found in a city-stabled horse of a few years, which has been 

 fed upon the usual feed, consisting of oate, corn, corn-meal, 

 some bran, ship-stufi", and the common allowance of timothy 

 hay. 



The city carriage-horse and saddle-cob, with an easy life, 

 are not unlike some of their owners — possessors of a for- 

 tune, together with a degree of hepatitis that, by a little 

 consideration, could have been avoided. In like manner, 

 the same difficulty can be prevented in the horse by the 

 opening and cooling properties of a bundle of sound clover 

 (cow) hay, so seldom seen in the stable of the gentleman 

 of the city, and which is so unjustly despised as a feed for 

 the horse. 



The principal objections raised against clover hay are, 

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