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mach, and renders the animal too laxative to 

 fupport any hard work or violent exercife : 

 fuch food pafTes fuddenly through the horfe ; 

 and this crudity is mod erroneoufly termed 

 quick digeftion, not knowing that digeftion 

 means the diffolution of the food fo minutely 

 as to enable it to enter the vefifels and circulate 

 with the mafs of blood, 



A horfe will eat any fort of grafs, when 

 mown and laid before him in the (table or fold. 

 The bent left in paflures where oxen and 

 fheep feed, would thus feed a number of 

 horfes , as likewife the grafs and weeds under 

 trees or hedges. Some tether a horfe in thofe 

 places : this is better than nor eating the grafs 

 at all. But nothing is fo good as mowing -, as 

 by that means the horfe makes manure, and 

 the grafs grows finer. On the contrary the 

 part on which the horfe is tethered, ^ets coarfer 

 and coarfer ; for he depofits all his urine and 

 dung upon the very fpot of ground where he 

 ought not. Road-fides, and all places where 

 weeds and fmall quantity of grafs grow, are 

 worth mowing, were it only for making ma- 

 nure. — Indeed, weeds in highways ought al- 

 ways 



