and more or less are they injured by every
deviation from nature.
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and more or less are they injured by every
deviation from nature.


The practice of giving hay at night to
horses, am sure, was introduced by tavern
keepers; and if not kept up by their inter-
ests would speedily be abandoned by every
one who had sense enough to perceive the
folly. In one or two hours during the day
horses can eat as much hay as will do them
good. In confirmation of this ] heard of
the treatment several travellers gave their
horses and pursued during journey of
many hundred miles. They gave their
horses only grain at night, and hay for an
hour in day. During the last thousand
miles, they gained in flesh (though they
travelled more expeditiously under this re-
gimen) that which they lost in the begin
ming, under the customary treatment of
giving grain in the day and hay at night.


The last point have to press is, the ne
cessity of keeping stock sheztered-that is,
securing to them the benefit of. their own
warmth 1t is truth, indeed, that during
their exposure to the Irregularities Of the
season, they require twice the ordinary food,
for their nourishment and stimulation. and
are subject to ten times as many fatal disor-
ders as otherwise they would be. The
master has taken them from state where
nature supplied their wants !; and if he be
not too much Of brute to feel for their
hardships, he ought TO be SO much of a man
Of honor as to supply what his interests
dictate, as a requtal to the animal for its
loss of.what nature designed for its original.


If by this plan Of grinding and boil
ing, the half of the grain be saved in the
country, as most certainly it may, there
will be but little occasion for pressing the
extension of the principle to man, by ad-
vising eating mush instead of bread, and
taking soup instead of meat.