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his general stamina, as to incapacitate him for 

 labour from other causes. 



Broken-winded horses are always disposed to 

 drink in greater quantities than others. They are 

 always thirsty ; they should therefore be w^atered 

 much oftener than their healthy companions, 

 though, on the aggregate, they should during 

 the twenty-four hours get less. All their food 

 should be given them wet ; this, and never allow- 

 ing them to suffer from thirst, w^ill render them 

 satisfied with as much liquid as it is judicious to 

 give them, and habit will still do more in this 

 particular. Fortunate is the man who has a groom 

 that will abide by instructions as to the proper 

 treatment of such horses as those in question. 



The bad, or thick-winded and asthmatic horse, 

 must not, however, be confounded with the broken- 

 winded one ; it is true even the latter are daily 

 worked, but most decidedly never without severe 

 distress to them. This is a horse I can hardly 

 contemplate my reader looking at, even for cart 

 purposes ; if he should, I must most strongly ad- 

 vise him never to buy one so affected for any 

 purpose. For though he might do what was re- 

 quired of him, no man of any feeling could wit- 

 ness, without regret, the efforts of an animal 

 in pain and distress. Humanity ought to direct 

 such afflicted animals to be shot as well as glan- 

 dered ones. V\hj this is not done arises from 



