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quantity of corn over-night, it will then, from 

 the inactivity of the animal, have time to di- 

 geft in his ftomach. 



SECTION XUV. 



Method of Soiling hor/es for Husbandry ; and 

 the great advantage arifing therefrom in Sum- 

 mer, 



WE have repeatedly taken pains to incul- 

 cate the advantage of ufing chopped draw: 

 and in no one inflance will the farmer find 

 it more highly beneficial than in mixing full 

 half draw cut with the green fodder* It is as 

 bread to meat with human beings ; it imbibes 

 the redundant juices of the green food, attenu- 

 ates the vifcofity of the humours in the body, 

 promotes the circulation, and the difcharge of 

 noxious and excrementitious matter, and affords 

 a mod wholefome nourishment to the horfe, as 

 the fleeknefs of his coat will bear witnefs. 



Soiling a horfe with green food only is very 

 apt to engender corrupt humours in the fto- 

 mach, 



