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No Horse 

 should stand 

 on litter in 

 the day-time. 



the picket cord, should ever be curried or 

 brushed: indeed a couple of curry-combs 

 may be kept in each troop, in case a horse 

 may have some hard dirt caked on, which 

 cannot otherwise be rubbed off. 



I never allow a horse to stand on litter in 

 the day-time in the stable. I speak not of 

 running-horses or hunters. Provided the 

 straw be not perfectly dry and clean, it 

 perishes the feet. Look to horses which 

 stand upon half-perished litter, as one half 

 of them do at the livery-stables ; you will 

 find their feet full of dirty half-perished 

 litter. This materially injures the feet. 



For the present, I have nearly done with 

 the treatment of horses ; but will give you 

 i^tion^l'r^^^ one receipt more, which, of all the medicines 

 aliTsprahls^^V in the \vorld, is the most efficacious. It is 

 as beneficial to man and woman, as it is 

 both to horses and dogs. You should 

 never be without a bottle of it in the house. 

 It is infallible in its cure of all bruises, 

 blows, and gentle strains, which horses and 

 dogs receive in the field. I do not mean 

 to say that it will cure a horse, which is 

 absolutely let down in the sinews; but, in 



