A Truss of New Hay, 60 lbs.
A Ton and a Load of Hay are nearly the same.
If you send a Servant to purchase Provisions, &c. for your Horses, at least choose the Purveyor yourself, and tell your Servant previously to bring you the Price, (in writing), with the Samples of the various things.
Desire each Tradesman to send home with each Article, whether you pay Ready Money for it, or otherwise, “A Ticket of the Quantity and the Price of it,” of which carefully ascertain the correctness.
Cast up every Bill,
Pay every Account Yourself,
and
Take care of your Receipts.
These are your only effective protections against those ruinous Impositions which perfunctory Persons continually suffer, from combinations between their Servants and their Purveyors.
ON
SENDING HORSES TO GRASS.
Delicate Horses who have been treated over tenderly, and have long stood warmly clothed in a hot Stable, must not be all at once turned out to Grass in cold Weather.
A Horse must have “the Constitution of a Horse” indeed, who can stand such a shock; for which, he should be gradually prepared by diminishing his Clothing, and gradually accustoming him to the Open Air;