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ledit; af good lodging, are the true specifics:—In those of ey T wns a redundance of the blood and humours, timely

t the ch bleedings, with cooling salts. In wounds, exclude

T am fl the air, and use turpentines and spirits, avoiding T Salesman, the old-fashioned, greasy applications. Nothing t purchase can bé more ridiculous, than the common running s, and that after this or that nostrum, for the cure of incurable d Improv. pees excepting the brother-folly of supposing 4 i kind. As sow-gelder, or indeed any illiterate person, can pos- i jdbers, I sibly ever qualify himself to practise aie q cto ay, W fee ey stock is kept, the farmer should al-} in accom: ways, if ba a make interest with his family-sur-| db; geon, and induce him to prescribe for his out- sates door family. A eae gel ntleman, who will be

altoge at the pains to turn over some of our best vetefi- ea nary ease(and the analogy— horses and 0 aie the other animals, is sufficiently close), after a few alte pa ical essays, will not find himself much at a loss in the stable. In the operative branch, he should pe employ a cow-leach, or farrier, to act under his di- oral rections. tedious na na rly and ON THE HORSE. Cad The mare may be put to the horse, any time in meted the spring, or the season may be extended, perhaps, ‘eae to the middle of July, but no later: She is said, by ready 1 Buffon, to go eleven months, and some odd days, alg but by the following extract, from my memoran-

dums, this will appear to be a very uncertain mat-

ped ter, and to require vigilance:—“ Brown Marske erin Mare, took the horse April 30, 1788, dropped a ad colt foal, April 28, 1789.—Horse, July 10, 17895 ea colt

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