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" I have a fine family horse, weighing a thousand pounds, and 

 worked to an average of five, or eight miles a day at the most. 

 I have been feeding nine quarts of oats and twelve pounds 

 of hay per day. I see now that I can with double advan- 

 tage save a large portion of the horse's feed. 



" I have had an experience in the line of the evil effects of 

 overfeeding which I am anxious not to repeat. My first horse 

 was boarded in a stable along with horses doing hard work, 

 and received the same allowance of food with them, while 

 her only labor was that of carrying on the back a man of a 

 hundred and thirty pounds weight for an hour or two a day 

 with frequent days of entire absence of labor. In consequence 

 disease was induced, a fullness of blood which produced a 

 rush to the head, and a blind, frantic running, followed by a 

 trembling fit. 



" I was compelled to part with the animal while yet in her 

 prime as to years, for a mere song. 



" I mention the case as illustrating your teaching concern- 

 ing the evil of feed disproportionate to work. 



" I enclose one dollar, for which I would thank you to mail 

 to me your work on the ' Natural Cure.' 



" Again expressing my grateful appreciation of your serv- 

 ices to horses, and their owners, 



" Yours respectfully, 



" Chas. G. McCully." 



AUTHOR'S GENERAL NOTE. 



The reception accorded to this book by horse- 

 men and the trade, and the favor with which it has 

 been received by agricultural and sporting papers, 

 has been so phenomenal that no sooner was the first 

 full edition fairly off the press th^n a second is de- 

 manded. I am especially glad of this, for it has given 

 me the opportunity to thus speedily make a certain 

 correction on page 40 relating to contagious diseases. 

 753 Broadway, New York, Dec. 25, 1883. 



