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bowels too much. The bots in young 

 horfes may be owing to too much mufty 

 bran and chaff, given with other foul feed 

 to make them up for fale : particu^lar care 

 therefore ihould be taken that the bran 

 be always fweet and new. 



Oats^ well ripened, make a more hear- Oats the 

 ty and durable diet than Barley^ and are ^"^^'^^ 

 much better luited to the conltuutions or horfes. 

 Englijh horfes, as appears by experience* 

 A proper quantity of cut flr'aw and hay 

 mixed with them, is fometimes very ufe- 

 ful to horfes troubled with bots, indigefti- 



on, ^c» 



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The method fome have of siving An ufeful 

 to young horfes, oats, or peafe, ^c, in '^^"^^^^' 

 the draw, is attended, amongft others, 

 with this inconvenience, that their pulling 

 out the flraw, in order to find the corn, 

 teaches them a bad cuftom, which they 

 never after forget, of pulling moil of 

 their hay out of the rack into the man- 

 ger or on the floor, with the fame expec- 

 tation. 



Horfes who eat their litter, fhould par- Obferva* 

 ticularly have cut flraw and powdered ^i^"* 

 chalk given them with their feed, as it 

 is a fign of a depraved ftomach, which 

 wants correfting. 



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