12 FACT NUMBER ONE. 



places than any other kind of feed. The observer had seen 

 it before some hundreds of times ; it had been about him, 

 and about others for many years, and yet had not been once 

 suspected ; nay, it had long been regarded as appropriate 

 and wholesome fodder, both for summer and winter 



This discovery is deemed a great public benefit, — a na- 

 tional blessing ; and it claims to merit the consideration and 

 gratitude, not of the farmer simply, but of every member of 

 the household of man. Aside from the misery which it im- 

 poses upon the poor horse and other animals, which every 

 humane mind must feel and regret, the loss to the owner, in 

 behalf of labor and property, and the aggregate loss to the 

 country, in point of general prosperity and wealth, must be 

 immense ; and without the knowledge of this discovery, it 

 must have increased in the ratio of the increase of horses, 

 <fcc, and of our population. 



Any further detail with respect to the manner in which 

 the cause of the Slobbers was discovered, or the experiments 

 made in this behalf, need not now be stated ; though it is but 

 just to observe that the discovery has been withheld from 

 the public up to this period, for the purpose of making what 

 appeared very sure, positively certain, and thereby place the 

 whole matter on tangible premises and above the reach of 

 doubt. 



Now, then, — the cause of the Horse Slobber, is a 

 wild grass, a native of our soil, and wonderfully prolific. 

 It was first found in and about old Indian reservations, and 

 it still grows about those regions in the greatest abundance 

 and to much the greatest perfection. But it is by no means 



