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with inconvenience to the highway, will, in a great degree, 

 lessen the dangers from the horse thief. 



When good accommodations cannot be readily procured, 

 let the milkman be engaged to bring a bundle of fresh-cut 

 grass every morning in his wagon, for from two to three 

 weeks, which will be long enough to answer every good 

 purpose that grass can accomplish. When this is adopted, 

 it is but following in the wake of London and New York 

 in this particular, where fresh grass is sold by the bundle 

 every morning. By this procedure, all the grass that is- 

 wanted can be fed to the valuable horse, without running 

 any risk whatever, by a season out at pasture. By the 

 gradual and progressive change produced by a few weeks 

 soiling in this way, the horse will not only renew his spirits, 

 but like the eagle, it will renew his youth, and be the 

 means of prolonging his days of usefulness. 



In giving grass to horses, v»'hen in the stable, feed spar- 

 ingly at first, or till the evidence is shown in the dung-pit, 

 by the green color. This precaution will prevent an attack 

 of colic, and perhaps the loss of life which sometimes occurs 

 after a belly-full of grass, particularly when wet. In turn- 

 ing a horse out to grass, let him be a little tired, so that he 

 will not be so much disposed to gallop and hurt himself, 

 and place him on a bare pasture for the first two days, to 

 prevent engorgement of the stomach and the production of 

 colic. These precautions being fully attended to, the horse 

 may be placed on pasture with a reasonable expectation of 

 seeing him again, and in as good condition as when he 



