54 avery's own farrier. 



sugar to his meal or bran for a short time, and be careful 

 about letting hira drink too much cold water at a time, 

 not allowing him to drink what he wants at any time, 

 except evening, after his day's work is done. A roasted 

 onion of convenient size given daily as a ball, will have 

 a very salutary effect on this disease. 



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CHAPTER VII. 



FOUNDER. 



Try it and be convinced before you call it a humbug. 



Founder is a contraction of the muscles, whereby the 

 coffin muscles suffer most. They lie within and extend 

 to the circle of the hoof (which contracts with the 

 muscle), and if relief is not found immediately, the horse 

 is rendered unfit for a roadster. And any one being so 

 unfortunate as to founder his horse, even on a journey or 

 elsewhere, need never lay by in consequence of the worst 

 founder, more than two or three hours at the most. 



I am well aware that there is a disagreement about 

 what causes founder; nevertheless, I have my opinion 

 with the rest. The most common one is drinking cold 

 water, when hot; but a horse that is fatigued, warm, or 

 sweaty, and exposed to the cold air or wind, will often 

 founder because he receives a sudden chill. Grain is 

 stimulating and will not founder a horse of itself; it may 

 creat'e an unusual heat of the body by eating too much 

 at a time, and then, by exposure to the cold air, be more 



