452 GN THE HORSE.

be kept perfectly free from dirt and scurf, and the skin supple; the parts more in sight well take care of themselves. Ina deep country, it is much the bet- ter practice, notwithstanding the prejudice to the contrary, to trim their legs, coach-horse fashion. ‘The number kept, being considerable, it will pay to employ an odd man, or horse-keeper, to a cer- tain number.

Never suffer a pretended-knowing carter to doe- tor horses, or to give them specifics for making their coats fine:—Nip all such mischiefs in‘hie bud.° Suffer not a parcel of silly fellows to strain the cart-horses to pieces at dead-pulls;—keep their vigour for useful purposes. Many very excellent horses neither will, nor have it in their power, fropz certain concealed natural defects, to draw dead-pulls; this hint is given from long experience, and from having often witnessed, indeed practised, much shameful and useless cruelty in that way.

The coarse garbage, with which farm-horses are commonly staeds profitably, or otherwise, is the real cause of the frequent’ occurrence among them, of blindness, gréase, and cholic, more pa articularly the last, which, a care, might be prevented from happening so frequently. The remedy les in phy- sic,. once or twice a year; either the regular aloe. tic dose, or salts given in pails of warm water, or sulphur and cremor-tartar, one third of the reier mixed in the corn. All horses kept m the stable betome, more or less, internally loaded 1; and it Is an error to pee cart-horses are not equally be- nefitted with others, by purging

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