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could run one yard. Our best stallions, I 

 arn certain, cover too many mares in one 

 season ; and this is the reason why they 

 get so few good colts. Look to a real Arabian 



Asses and 



Arabian ass, such as the many sons of ^"^Jjg^g 

 princes rode on, who cam^ to visit King 

 Solomon ; — and view one of our English 

 donkeys. The Arabian asses have great 

 speed, with beautiful symmetry and shape. 

 Our English donkeys have no shape nor 

 make to be compared to them. Do you 

 think it is not the same with race-horses ? 



Let us return. Sot a short time, to the 

 diseases of horses. Osmer informs us how 

 to make a medicine nearly analagous to 

 Doctor James's Pov/der : thus it is : — Take 



TWO PARTS OF NITRE, AND ONE OF ANTI- 

 MONY, FIRST RUBBED TOGETHER, AND DE- 

 FLAGRATE THEM OVER A FIRE, IN A CRUCI- 

 BLE, BY PUTTING IN A LITTLE AT A TIME. 



One or two ounces may be given once or 

 twice a day. I confess I never have tried 

 this medicine ; but it is composed of two 

 excellent medicines, and, provided it be 

 analagous to Doctor James's Powder, it must 

 be a valuable medicine. He savs it is ?7iost 



