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Quid sit puichrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non/—Hon, 
Remarks on the Condition of Hunters, fyc. By Nimrod. 
[Continued from page 590.] 
From an account of the evils occasioned to the body by a 
“ summer's run at grass,” Nimrod proceeds with his subject 
“ as regards the state of the legs and feet of hunters.” His 
words thereon are —“ I have no hesitation in saying that the idea 
of a summer’s run at grass, being beneficial to the legs of a 
hunter, is a most erroneous one; and that with respect to the 
feet, they may, by proper management in the stable or loose 
house, derive all those advantages they would receive from grass.” 
In confirmation of which, he gives us an account of the result of 
an experiment he made upon two hunters, whose legs were 
i( equally round, full, and knocked about,” one of which was 
turned to grass, the other kept in a loose box. And further¬ 
more, he considers the exercise hunters take at grass of their own 
natural accord as being injurious, and that we run great risk 
“ of injuring their legs by the work we are obliged to give them, 
when heavy, to get rid of the load of flesh they have accumu¬ 
lated at grass.” And that we ought to take into the account 
“ the great stress which is laid upon the sinews of the fore-legs 
of most hunters when in the act of grazing;” and also “ the bad 
effects which arise from the constant stamping of their feet 
to get rid of the flies.” 
“ My most essential objection, however, to turning hunters out 
to grass, is, not so much on account of their legs and feet—for 
without good legs and feet, horses may go very well over a 
country— but it is the destruction of their condition which is so 
detrimental to them, for it is impossible that it can be restored 
by the time the)/ are required to go into the field again.” 
Nimrod’s treatment of hunters in the summer consists in put¬ 
ting the animal into a loose box; by degrees diminishing his 
corn to two feeds a-day; giving him at first an hour’s walking 
exercise every morning, as usual; then giving him two doses of 
physic; and subsequently discontinuing the exercise. Not that 
he is averse to turning; hunters out at all in the summer months 
‘‘ So far from being averse to it (he tells us), 1 would strongly 
recommend it, under favourable circumstances. In case of having 
recourse to blistering, it is most serviceable; and after firing, 
almost necessary. But, then, they should be turned out only 
at night , and into a place where there is but little grass, and 
have two, if not three feeds of corn a-day, but nothing else to eat 
till they go out, unless it be a few vetches, for four or five days 
