THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 545 



" When the work is hard, food should be in plenty | when 

 *' it is otherwise, the food should be diminished immedi- 

 " ately — the hay particularly." 



1 HAVE no doubt that the noble author is perfedly 

 right in these observations : I am also of opinion, that a 

 handful or two of clean wheaten straw, chopped small, 

 and mixed Vvith their corn, would be of great service to 

 your horses, provided that you have interest enough %vith 

 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 3'ou will not find this quantity too much ; 

 nor have I ever known an accident happen from it, 

 although it has been given in very indifferent weather. 1 

 should tell you, that my horses are always taken in the 

 first night after their physic, though the printed dire(flions, 

 I believe, do not require it. Such horses as are full of hu- 

 mours should be physicked at house, since they may require 

 stronger doses than grass-physic will admit of; which 1 think 

 more proper to prevent humours than to remove them. The 



