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Show FARM AND GARDEN. " Correspondence for the "Farm a1 d Garden" department of tho IIiska 1.1. i. solicitf:-1! from all parts of tin territory, Utah farmers must, to a t;rcat extent, (vptabl ish a system of agriculture adapted to her fpecial nccesiti Agr.-cuUurists Agr.-cuUurists will a-tiist eaelj, other by sending send-ing In fjr publication, information per-tairiii per-tairiii gto farmiiig and gardening, und agricultural pursuits generally. OATS FOR IIAED WORKED HORSES. To keep horses when not hard worked we need no mixtured; weUte one grain in which the nutiitive elements are so proportionally arranged tbat.it cannot be improved upon; practice ha8 long adopted it. We refer to oats. But to keep hard worlfine horses in condition in a vorr diQereat thing. Oats alone are not equal to it, nor can any other single grain preserve both health and condition. con-dition. The faot is either their oh em ical constitution or their physiological action is detective, and we must, by mixing different articles, so alter the nutritive value, and so balance the physical actions as te produce a food which will not disarrange the functions of the animal, but which will Bupply all the requirements of the I body. To hard worked men oatmeal ia no efficient substitute for beef and muttoo, and for hard-worked horses oati are inefficient as compared with beans and peas. Experience tells us this most plainly, and science explains it by showing that beans, peas and tares are almost indentical with beef and mutton in the amount rf miunln forming material contained hy eaoh; whereas oats contain nearly fifty per senium less thao either of them. Now, in horses or other animals ex cessively worked, the consumption of muscle is far io excess of the wae e of other tissue, aod the blood must be supplied by a correspondingly large '.mount of fleBh-furmiog material. To fulfil thia requirement we must give food containing a heave percentage percent-age of nitrogenous material, olher-ise olher-ise the digestive organB will not be ible to Bupply tbe requisite pabulum. Beans or beef will eupply it, oats or potatoes will not, even if we g"ive an 3xtra amount of them, because thip entails the consumption of such an .mmense bulk of material, a large proportion of which is indigestible .tud non-nitrogtuouq, that the digestive digest-ive organs are overpowered and unable to reduce the mass to a state in which all its value may be aborhed For these reasons, then, wo Bay thai the use of oats as a principle article o! lie for excessively bard worked horeee is very expensive, if not injurious, Canada Stock Journal, |