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the age of the hay, I coincide with these remarks ; but I 
cannot agree with his choice, and much prefer the meadow 
hay such as I have described, when equally well made, to 
any and all others for horses in strong work. 
On soiling, in which I thoroughly believe for a change 
in the spring, he says :— 
“ Clover, trefolium, vetches, or lucern may be used, and 
carrots in winter. Grass in the spring is not only food but 
medicine, and expeditiously cures disease. It carries off 
worms and promotes all the secretions, and removes as it 
were the whole mass of fluids in the body, which it restores 
to the highest state of perfection of which it is capable.” 
“Sailors,” he goes on to say, “from eating dry and salt 
food are subject to scurvy, and are cured by fresh greens 
and ripe fruit ;’’ and adds, “it is the same with horses who 
are fed on dry food; they are likewise subject to the scurvy, 
which in them is called the farcy.” 
Having said I agree with the system of occasionally 
giving green food in small quantities as an alterative in 
summer and carrots in winter, without discussing the simili- 
tude existing between the scurvy in the human subject 
and farcy in the quadruped, I pass on to notice his further 
remarks on change of dict. 
“Malt mixed with the food,” he says, “should occasionally 
be given as agreeable and wholesome. Barley is too purga- 
tive, but when boiled is easy of digestion and is given 
to horses when they are sick or to prevent costiveness.” 
“Oats,” he continues, “are generally given to horses in 
' Britain; but they are apt to make them too costive; to 
prevent which a bran-mash is given once a week, or as 
often as circumstances may require.” Beans he recom-~- 
mends, and wheat and barley for a change, but, “new corn 
like new hay, should not be given.” 
