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To such of my horses as are thick-winded, and such as 

 carry but little flesh, I give carrots. In many stables they 

 are given at the time of feedings in the corn : I prefer giving 

 them at any other time j for it is a food which horses are so 

 fond of, that if by any accident you should omit the carrot Sy 

 I doubt whether they would eat the corn readily without them. 



I THINK you are perf^dly in the right to mount your 

 people well : — there is no good economy in giving them 

 bad horses : they take no care of them, but wear them out 

 ias soon as they can, that they may have ethers. 



The question that you ask me about shoeing, I am un- 

 able to answer : yet I am of opinion, that horses should 

 be shod with more or less iron, according as the country 

 wherein they hunt requires j but in this a good farrier will 

 best direft you. Nothing, certainly, is more necessary to 

 a horse than to be well shod : — the shoe should be a pro- 

 per one, and it should fit his foot. Farriers are but too 

 apt to make the foot fit the shoe*. My groom carries a 



* I venture to give the following rules on shoeing, in a short and deci. 

 sive manner, as founded on the stridest anatomical and mechanical princi- 



