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got it make arrangements for the due preservation 

 thereof in half to an acre of paddock to itself, with a 

 wooden shed about fifteen feet square, fronting to tlie 

 south at the end. Were you an owner of acres two 

 years run in this would cost a mere nothing, but in 

 that case you probably would not have the sense to do 

 it. If not an owner, about five and twenty to thirty 

 pounds each year (for a little corn must be allowed 

 during the spring and autumn as well as all the 

 winter), will cover the expenses and have to be added 

 to the purchase. To those who inveigh against this 

 method, saying " racing about fields will produce 

 windgalls quite as quick as work" I have to observe 

 fields were not recommended, nothing but an acre or 

 less; and also, if the sire and dam were free of 

 windgalls the chances are a hundred to one that your 

 purchase will remain free of them too. Exercise it 

 must have, and this is the only proper exercise. 



At three years old it can be gently broken, but in 

 lieu of any shoeing whatever stand each foot in an 

 iron saucer, sunk a little in the centre, and not quite 

 red hot, for ten seconds, pouring into the saucer the 

 instant each foot is down a large tumbler full of the 

 strongest alum water. The crust will not chip after 

 this, and the operation should be repeated monthly, 

 putting some tar and grease to the frog afterwards. 



