B20 OF PHYSICKING, 



it is otherwise, the food should be diminished 

 imiTiediately, — the hay particularly." 



I have no doubt that the noble author is 

 perfectly right in these observations : I am 

 also of opinion that a handful or two of clean 

 wheaten straw, chopped small, and mixed 

 with their corn, would be of great service to 

 your horses, provided that you have interest 

 enough with your groom to prevail on him 

 to give it them. 



Such of my horses as are physicked at grass 

 have two doses given them when they are 

 turned out, and three more before they are 

 taken up. Grass physic is of so mild a kind, 

 that you will not find this quantity too much ; 

 nor have I ever known an accident happen 

 from it, though it has been given in very 

 indifferent weather.. I should tell you, that 

 my horses are always taken in the night after 

 they take their physic, though the printed 

 directions, I believe, do not require it. Such 

 horses as are fidl of humours should be 

 physicked at house, since they may require 

 stronger doses than grass physic will admit 

 of, which, I think, is more proper to prevent 

 humours than to remove them. The only 

 use I know in physicking a horse that does 



