112 THE HORSE. 



proper soiling for the superior kinds of horses ; tares 

 are perhaps too succulent, and are supposed to ac- 

 celerate inordinately the process of sanguification, to 

 stuff the horse too much, which is required to move 

 with speed, impeding the free course of his wind. As 

 to the rule for dispensing this kind of food, its use 

 commencing in the spring, it may be continued once 

 a day, so long in the season as it can be procured 

 young, fresh, and good, and as it may appear to pro- 

 mote the condition of the horses, which during this 

 stable soiling, may be stinted of one feed of corn per 

 day, granting them not engaged in any severe duty. 

 All horses kept constantly in the stable should have 

 the benefit of this course, which relieves them from 

 that stuffing and confinement of the intestines to which 

 they are necessarily liable from the dry and binding 

 aliment which their labour and condition require. 



Proceed we to the autumnal soiling, the prime 

 material of which is that noble root the carrot, 

 at once nutritive and cleansing, promotive of all the 

 secretions, and imparting a beautiful burnish to the 

 coat. Carrots contain no noxious juices necessary 

 to be evaporated or sweated away, but may be used 

 as soon as they are of perfect growth ; a feed, half a 

 peck to a peck, washed and sliced, being a substitute 

 for a feed of corn. Hunters, hacks, coach horses, 

 racers, out of training, in order to their well doing 

 and the credit of their proprietors, should all enjoy 

 the benefit of this stable act of parliament. Parsnips 

 are used in the same intent, but with more propriety 

 to the draught, than the saddle horse ; also the Ruta- 

 baga, the most substantial of turnips, and the mangel 



