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PRACTICAL DIRECFIONS SUNTLEMZN AND TRADESMEN KEEPING AND MANAGING HORSES; wee re CARE REQUIRED UEFORE AND AFDE 4 JOURNEY. THA TREATENT UB DISEASED HORSES, AND THE CAUSES, BYM TOS, AND BEST MODES QE CURE, PLAIN DILEK TIONS FORTHE CHOICE ANB TORCH ASE oF HORSES, WITETHER INTENDED VOR SADDLE OR HARNESS, {SUL ANN TIM COND QL AAITERN, AND DERLGT THE LAULth Cs CABRIAGE, SIG, CART, AMO SADDLE HORSES, BY JAMES MILLS, MVC § ITU ENGRAVINGS, UOTE CURRAN OF THK ARATONIGAL SPRECCURL AP PINE MARR PORIAHON OF te CULE Re I TEL TR, Ae THIRD FDIION, ENLARGED AND TRPEOWED LONDON SUEY LS EP Co PURMADNEEIOE UREET VARIED POUM OF THR WONSE, Un who wants a herve, ant wohes to aveud disap yortuient, would do wall before he gous wo market, to have made op his mind a6 to the work ho requeses Tum to perform, and serunely wk binisell Ubis qc inm— What sort of s horse do L wna?” do tr qe specd, attength, or show!” Let hm rest satistled sf fie abzara the one Jeutig: requisite, and bear it anind the important feet, tht the very quali ties which render hun ae-enimentiy eaiendated tur a patheukn service, unl kat dor others. Every horse aw smtthle fur some purpose, and the proof of juchetuns disenamantion 12 a purchisce, 18, 80 to choose Inx hors, that he shall be the most suitable for the duty he will have to perfona, Nature and art, by striking and great variations an the structure and propornows of the horse, ap- pear to have poited out the stauion which the aufferent tnbes of this most valuable erevsut are each destued to fullil; yet man too often perstste im shyghling these great prineyples; and hence, mor iti- cation, expense, and chaconefort awart bis perversity, wine making bimeelf arenauitedl, as fur ax tes 1 a THR HORSS-KEEPEWs OUIDE: his power, with the lessons pluved before hin. Not ont borse in w Whousand 19 equally well adapted for saddte and harness, for speed and strength; and we shall here endeavour to put the reader im possession ‘uf the principles upou which a sound judgment af Ibis fitness or untitues for uny given purpose may be formed, To judge of preportion we aust have a know. indge of dhe eervice for which the borse 1s requare. Phere ww one couformatin for slow and heavy Grdnght; a sceond for yhter ad quicker work} ‘a thord for a hackney, 2 fourth, with more speed and éqoal endnranee. fora hunter; while a fifth is wanted “forthe racer. Kuch one possessing its own peculiar style of heanty: and cach haw ats peeuhar pte- eminence where properly employed. Many pirebasers we as incapable of appreeating the geueral quahties of @ horse, and his fitness for a eortain: purpose, as they of decidmg on his soundness or unsotndness; uud m ther purchase, the greater part, if not the whole uncertainty, us to the nitrate result of the transaction, anaes from the bnyer’s want ‘of judginent, and the expectations he forms of per- feetion i every quality, yet there are few snbjcets on which mec sre so positive aud self-suilleent aa this, Uf be have to carry weight and much te do, we ‘Begire 2 short back:"that he be wellanbhed home; (that is, the ribs reaching to withm a short distance of the baunch bone,) and that his pasterns be short. Hf speed is required, there must be room for the “fuil action of the hinder quarters, which ave the pro- tpelhag power; we then require a long back and blige scapula and pasterus: thus. wf strength iw VAKIND FORM OF TRE WORSE. * 7 reynured, we purchase at at the expence of elasticity! and clastualy vé uhtunied at the epetee of strength. Wut whatever the services required, whether Action, Safety, or Strength, at is deptudayt on certain fixed, vl Avtion depends on the length and dureetion of the vations parts of the bony Faline as apposed to eseh other. “Mafety 1s connected with thy degree of perfection an the form aud dizcetion of the finds, uated with a Just proportion of the Ieagtb, Strengtie w the resutt of nnisealar contractions on organs adopted for awulien. Let ws now consider the apphestion, tu ‘Cun Rice Tonse we sock feagih amd clastricity of form, a louy and oblique blade boue; a short shoulder bone, «Jong auteboie; @ short eantion; Jong spemigy pasternss and aaple nuweukir qnariers, With tins foraiitton, velneiy is artamed, at dus srenilice of satety as ret rying do lr, and Stragle ms resads hearing burdens and deeming Jnads. "Phe gallop af a tareshorsr ut bat a snecesian of leaps; and ail anmuls rewarkable for their velacity in this motion (uw ihe greyhound and hare) are fonnd comparatively low before, and high and yower fol bebiud. The whole endeasoar of the breeder hae therefore hecu, te mould dus furm, and tashion tis organg for thal purpose; and to condense into the amallist possible space, the greatest possible Luk of munchs and lune,