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kt him cat his corn, to fee him well dreffed, 

 his legs rubbed with flraw and with the hands, 

 after being clean wafhed with fofc foap and wa- 

 ter. The mailer mud likewife take care that 

 the horfe has his neceffary exercife, and that his 

 ilraw and his (lable be perfe6lly clean and com- 

 fortable ', and the horfe will not want a doflor. 

 Horfes that have fed upon low land are li- 

 able to the greafe ; and fuch feeding will alfq 

 caufe a diforder which is called the feltrick; 

 which is a^tmnour or fwellingin the lowed part 

 of the abdomen or belly, and which, if you 

 open it by making a fmall incifion in the (kin, 

 you will find to be full of a white watery mat- 

 ten A horfe worth preferving ought never to 

 be put upon fuch land; for if he efcapes with 

 iife he is certain of injuring his conftitution, 

 and of beino; rendered unfit for hard exercife. 

 I V70uld not buy, at any price, a horfe that had 

 been bred in the fens, or kept on low fenny or 

 fwampy land, let his figure be ever fo good. — 

 What I call marfli land is of a different nature 

 from fenny land-, efpecially falt-marlh, which 

 is by far the bed padure a horfe can go upon 

 in fummer. The feltrick is cured by foments 



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