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his legs, andlbme get what is called the felteric. 

 The greater the quantity of corn and dry meat 

 you give him, the worfe he becomes ; and the 

 only method left to fave him is to keep him on 

 grafs. If you have carrots or potatoes, they 

 would anfwer much bettter than corn or any 

 dry food. I have loft feveral horfes by this 

 fortofdiforder : from the defi re of collecting 

 manure, I have put them into a draw-fold, 

 which I now know to be a certain method of 

 defpatching them quickly. Chopped ftraw, 

 which I have hitherto fo (Irongly recommended 

 as the moft wholefome and cheapen: food, is 

 here rank poifon — a proof that there is no rule 

 without an exception, I have felt it to my coil. 

 When any of my horfes died of this diftemper, 

 or, in fa 61, of any other, I generally opened 

 them by way of practice j and I have frequent- 

 ly found the principal ftomach or bag, as the 

 farriers term it, nearly eaten chrough by thefe 

 deftruclive vermin: none which died of the 

 bots but had the coat of the ftomach nearly de- 

 ftroyed. If you turn beafts upon a common, 

 at a year old, and give them ftraw in the win- 

 ter, they will increafe in age, but very little in 



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