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Stomach and Blood, makes ’em drink freely, and pre- 
vents Gripes or Plague in the Guts. v 
Oats are the chiefeft Food for Horfes, becaufe two 
thirds are Chaff; and tho’ the chaffy part be fepara- 
ted, as it is in Oatmeal, it would prove as hurtful as 
any green Wheat, and flop and heat the Blood ; for 
the flour of all Grain is glutinative and obftrutiifre ; 
and in Straw, Chaff, and Bran is contain’d the open- 
ing, cleanfmg.and digeftive Property. Threfht Corn 
of any fort is good'Food for working Horfes that go 
at Grafsafl the Winter. Let ’em lie out a nights, fo 
' give ’em Corn in the morning before they go to work, 
and again at night. 
Put the Stable-Horfes to Grafs from the middle-of 
May to the end of June or July , for the Grafs is full 
of Life, and of a cleanfing quality, purging and car- 
rying off the Humours that are contracted in Winter. 
The Air aifo purifies the Blood, and helps the Feet 
and Legs, and other Difeafes caus’d by hot Stabks. 
Water for Horfes . 
River-water is better than Springer Pump-water. 
Next is Spring or Pump-water, then Pond or Rain* 
water; but that Water that has any tafte or fmeli is 
not good, except the airy tafte. And as for Pond- 
water, tho’ Cattle will chufe it fooneft, being warm- 
eft of all other, yet it is net fo good nor wholfom, for 
Reafons I have not room to fhew. 
To order Sheep r and Jecure 'em 
from the Rott . 
S Heep are Paid to be moderately hot and moift, in 
Complexion phlegmatick and fanguine, with a 
mixture of melancholy, and if they exceed in any of 
the four Humours 3 ’tis in Moifture ; for they are po- 
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