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a most wholesome and necessary adjunct to corn 

 for all sorts of horses ; it prevents them boltlnc 

 their oats, causes proper mastication, and, further, 

 gets horses that are gluttons out of the habit of 

 wasting oats by throwing them out of the manger 

 in their greediness to get at them. I need scarcely 

 say chaff should be fresh, that is, not laid by lono- 

 after being cut, and of the very best of hay ; I 

 have sometimes found a little cut from pure clover- 

 hay coax horses to eat their corn if mixed with it, 

 wlien off their appetite : in a general way, I should 

 say a little chaff should always be given with corn, 

 unless on the morninsr of huntinsr. 



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