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difference which will certainly be found in the 

 value of the animal* I ^o not like beans, or 

 any kind of grain for foals except oats. A foal 

 half-ftarved in rearing never, or very feldom in- 

 deed, recovers the injury he receives when 

 young, and cannot be expeded to make a horfe 

 of value. ^ 



1 cannot quit this fubje6t without giving a 

 particular piece of advice to the mafter of the 

 foal : — Let him fee that his foal receives with 

 regularity the allotted quantity of one quartern 

 of oats per day: it is probable, if the mafter 

 obf^rves this caution, that his foal will thrive 

 better than if he ordered half a peck per day to 

 be given him by his labourer or other fervant. 



I do not pretend to fay that all young horfes 

 are worth corn : I b.'lieve there exift thoufands 

 in this kingdom who have confumed more than 

 they were ever capable of earnings but thofe I 

 have been fpcaking of are horfes of value, whe- 

 ther for the faddle or draught. There are ma- 

 ny not worth raifing on any fort of food. A 

 horfe that in his prime will not fell for more 

 than from fix to ten pounds was never worth 

 half what he cofl the breeder \ as the covering 



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