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THE SUMMERING OF THE HUNTER. 
Would gentlemen, immediately on hearing this noise or peculiarity 
of breathing, apply to their veterinary surgeon for assistance, I 
cannot help thinking many a good hunter might be saved from 
what, to him, is generally tantamount to destruction. And yet, 
how extraordinary is it that the degrees of obstruction to breathing 
in roarers are so great that, in some cases, horses so affected can¬ 
not go to hounds at all; and in others, neither pace nor country 
will stop them, as long as other (sound) horses can go. That fine, 
straight-forward horseman, Mr. Peyton, rode a roarer last season 
that not one sound horse in a hundred can beat. This fact tends 
to strengthen the opinion of Mr. Turner, corroborated indeed bv 
one satisfactory experiment, that the cause of the noise is occa¬ 
sionally seated in the nostril, and not in parts more materially con¬ 
nected with the action of the lungs, such as the trachea, &c. 
I am happy in being enabled to say, that the in-door system of 
summering hunters is now become almost general. In fact, it 
may safely be asserted, that what is called the grazing system is 
abandoned in ninety-five studs out of a hundred throughout Great 
Britain; and amongst those of Leicestershire and Northampton¬ 
shire I could only hear of two instances of hunters so treated; and 
the evils of it were apparent in their condition, even at an ad¬ 
vanced period of the hunting season. With some hard-riding 
men, indeed, the in-door system is carried to the highest extreme. 
The hunters of Lord Gardner, for example—if not the hardest, one 
of the hardest riders of the present day—never quit their stalls the 
summer through, unless for the purpose of exercise, which they daily 
enjoy; neither do they eat green meat, with the exception of a 
little, now and then, mixed with their hay. The splendid stud of 
Mr. Folgambe is treated nearly on the same plan. It is kept 
in condition throughout the year; and I think he might challenge 
all the sporting world to produce horses that have carried himself 
and his whippers-in so many consecutive seasons as some in his 
stables have done. One of them has carried himself fourteen 
seasons, and, barring accidents, will be ready for him next season 
(I now speak from ocular demonstration, having visited Mr. F. 
in April last), and worth three six-year olds, with their system 
overladen with grass fat, and proportionably deficient in muscle. 
In the beautiful Oration of Mr. Morton, in your number for Ja¬ 
nuary last, the evils of the grazing system—the scelera graminis, 
if I may be allowed to call them such—are so clearly and fearfully 
exhibited, that the ver}'' perusal of the detail of them would deter 
any reflecting person from subjecting his horses to the hazard of 
them. But, putting aside the evils arising from the debilitating 
and digestion-destroying effects of grass, what reflecting person 
could expect any thing but mischief from atmospheric influence to 
horses tnrncH nut from their warm and regularly-ventilated sta- 
