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supersede. Cow-cabbage — or drumhead, by which 

 name it is better known to the rustics — on which 

 sheep and kine do so well, must have cooling pro- 

 perties, and great results may be confidently looked 

 for from the extensive use of this esculent. Again, 

 lettuces, radishes, celery, and mustard-and-cress are 

 appetizing to a delicate stomach ; and the onion and 

 leek, so beloved of man in their raw state, would pro- 

 bably become palatable to the equine tribe when 

 accustomed to their use; just as donkeys, from an 

 acquired taste, give the preference to the thistle. 

 Artichokes, vegetable marrows, spinach, and asparagus, 

 with many well-known garden products, will occur 

 to mind as edibles that may be given to horses 

 without any fear of ill-results, and indeed with the 

 full expectation of producing some extraordinary 

 benefit. 



I have now only to offer with becoming diffidence 

 a suggestion which, it appears to me, has to this time 

 unaccountably eluded the observation of those who 

 give their powerful intellects to the study of the 

 wants of the racehorse. For centuries past nothing 

 whatever has been added to water as their beverage. 

 We know that wine and spirits have been given neat 

 to horses just before running a race, with extra- 

 ordinary effect. But why not give them at other 

 times, or mix them in palatable proportion in the 

 water they drink ? Linseed-tea and other strengthen- 

 ing vegetable infusions also appear to have been over- 



