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would induce him ; which have often been the means of 

 producing cholic, founder, and other diseases, that too 

 frequently prove fatal in the hands of a common farrier, 

 to which title every hostler, blacksmith, and every 

 blockhead of a servant, who does not even understand 

 the currying of a horse, have pretensions. The loss 

 of two or three quarts of blood, to a horse that has 

 undergone excessive fatigue, will remove the soreness 

 and stiffness of his limbs, the natural consequence of 

 violent exertions. 



TREATMENT ON A JOURNEY. 



To perform a long journey, with comfort and ease 

 to a horse, and satisfaction to the rider, requires some 

 attention to the feeding, for eight or ten days previous 

 to the setting out. A horse uncommonly fat, running 

 late at grass, fed with unsubstantial food, such as 

 bran, &c. or unaccustomed to exercise and fatigue, is 

 very unfit to perform a journey on, unless prepared by 

 being fed on old and solid food, for eight or ten days, 

 such as corn, fodder, oats, or hay, and given moderate 

 exercise. A horse about half fat is in the best situa- 

 tion to bear the fatigue and labour of a journey by 

 following the mode of treatment I shall here recom- 

 mend. If he is only a tolerably good one, by the time 

 he reaches his journey's end, should it last four or five 

 weeks, his condition will be much improved, if he is 

 not entirely fat. 1st. It is necessary to have your 

 horse shod with a good and substantial set of shoes, 



