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slightly moistened with water. Horses of this 

 description being generally greedy of water, 

 and so voracious as to devour their litter if 

 kept from hay, it is advisable to muzzle them 

 immediately after feeding. Some advantage 

 also will be derived from ouviner them a mode- 

 rate quantity of carrots now and then, particu- 

 larly when their work happens to be but mode- 

 rate, this vegetable being nutritious and easy 

 of difT^estion. — Much has been said bv writers 

 on farriery respecting the kind of water that 

 is most wholesome for horses. The greater 

 part seem to prefer pond- water, where the 

 bottom is composed of clay and chalk. It 

 appears to me, that the most desirable kind of 

 water is that which horses like best, provided 

 it be not too cold; and I think it probable, that 

 the ill effects, that have sometimes been pro- 

 duced by drinking certain kinds of water, have 

 not been occasioned by foreign or impure 

 matters contained in it, but merely by its 

 coldness ; and I have found it the best plan to 

 give clear river water in summer, and well 

 water in winter; the latter being warmer in 

 cold weather than water exposed to the air, 

 and colder in summer. Some old author (I 

 diink Dr. Bracken) has expressed a suspicion 



