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To avoid these losses and disappoiiitmeiits, I was at last leduced to the 

 necessity of bringing them up by band iu my own stables, without the 

 use of aiiy field, or only occasionally. By this means, they were saved 

 from violent injuries; but were subject to the defects I have nientioned 

 already, and I observed, that their living chiefly ou hay generated in a 

 remarkable nianner abundance of worms, of that species, which soils the 

 anus with white matter, like birds diing.* 1 am the more induced to 

 mention my experiments in this way of reariiig them, having at lastfound 

 out a way of obviating agreat deal of the above inconveniences, which may 

 be useful to such as are compelled to keep their horses a long timein the 

 stable; whether youngor old, which was, by substituting a large bran mash 

 every day for the mid-day feed, instead of hay, which appeared to agree 

 with them particularly well. Oats, where there is much confinement, if 

 given in any considerable quantity, is of too inflammatory a nature ; though 

 their occasional use to young horses at grass may be beneficial. 



To prevent the numerous disasters of commons and farm yards, and to 

 bring up the young horse in perfection, separate paddocks appear to be 

 necessary, with a proper shed or hovel in each for feeding aud for shelter. 

 The most complete I have ever seen for this purpose are at Hampton 

 Court, constructed for the stud of the Prince Regent, which appear 

 to be admirably well adapted to this purpose. The foUowing brief 

 description of thera may not be unacceptable to the reader. 



A wall bounds the North side of this Park, dividing it from the great 

 Kingston Road ; an extensive inclosure adjacent to this wall, is divided 

 iuto paddocks by strong wooden fences or partitions, placed in lines 

 parallel to each other, and at right angles to the wall; these inclosures 

 of an oblong figure contain each about two acres of ground. 



The sheds or rather stables of these paddocks are built against the 

 wall at every other partition and being double, each is made to serve two 

 paddocks appearing on either side the partition. The troughs also for 



* 'I'liree or foiir species of Worms are found in llie intestines of Horses ; biit one only of these appears 

 to proihice this sort of white matter, the Triciwcephalns Eqin, or WItip Worm, the one end being large, 

 and the other tapering to an extrcmely fine pointlike a dflg-whip, the small end has very natnrally been 

 takcn for the tail, but is in reality the head of the animal. This white secrelion is the Juices of Ihe 

 worm turned to this colour aftcr its death, the skin becoraing tcnder aud rupturing in passing the spbinc- 

 <er of the rectum, with the düng balls tliis white matter falls upon the periiieum and soils it,anditis 

 usually imagiued the excrement of the worm. The olher intestinal wonns producc, I believe, no 

 appearance of this sorl. 



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