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Show Feeding Farm Horses. At the Michigan experiment station an experiment was recently conducted for ten weeks, using a variety of cheap aubstlttttes for oats and timothy hay as a feed for horses. Six horses at work received a regular ration of timothy hay and oats at an average cost of 29 cents per day, estimating the feed at current prlcee. The horses lost on an average of 11 pounds each. Six horses were fed a cheaper ration consisting, of shredded cornstalks, corn-stalks, oat straw, hay, ear corn, oats, beet pulp. bran, oil cake and a few carrots, the average cost of which was 17.7 cents per day, and the horses gained on an average 14 pounds each. Four horses were also fed the cheaper cheap-er ration, but as they were at rest part of the time they were not fed so heavily as the other lots. The average av-erage cost of maintenance In this trial waa 13.9 cents, and the average loss In live weight for each horse four pound. |