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the other in the distance to come on and bear him com- 

 pany. 



An excess of hot food, as corn, &c., fails to excite the 

 coats of the stomach to secrete their digestive fluids 

 (heating the furnace too hot), while the other parts are 

 left unsupplied, such as goes to help form bone, muscle 

 and fibres of the animal, which must result, if persevered 

 in, in the total destruction of (he whole animal structure. 



Thus we see that when the inward heat is raised too 

 high by the use of medicine, or by feeding any of the 

 heavier kinds of grain, for the healthy action of the 

 whole system, the proper remedies to be employed is to 

 feed the more cooling and lighter grains, that I have 

 heretofore mentioned,* which will supply the wants of 

 each and every part of the body, in just proportion to 

 benefit the whole. And it is precisely the same thing 

 in medicating the horse; when the lungs (or furnace) is 

 too hot, you should not fan the flame by adding more 

 fuel, in the form of those stimulating drugs so often used; 

 but when there is a want of vitality (or the fire is too 

 low), use the articles I have recommended for this pur- 

 pose, sufficiently to raise it to its natural heat, and then 



"* The virgin soil will produce almost any kind of vegetation, under 

 a proper state of cultivation ; but you continue to crop it with one 

 kind only, it will soon exhaust all the qualities of the soil that are 

 required to grow that particular crop; and in this way you may keep 

 on with the different kinds until you impoverish the whole, and it 

 becomes barren. So it may be with the horse; he maybe fed on 

 one kind of food, deficient in the requisites to form bone or muscle, 

 while the other organs of the body lay dormant, for the want of the 

 healthy and invigorating influence of them; or, vice versa, when he 

 will appear raw-boned, carrying but little flesh. 



