Show mcm N G JH HORSES w elive diore rood ana lex leba corn work 11 orsett one sees tho the finest dratt draft horses in tho the streets of ent english gliet cities those equine monsters the brewers horses black as a coal sleek and spirited are strong enough to walk off with Avith cast case with a load of six or seven tons tile the solid fool of these bauts of their raco race mainly consists of crushed crush cil oats or barley and beans with sli Ali caves of green barley y and tares in addition to tile tho accustomed hay sometimes broad is given and eaten with avidity and on sundays a mash having ha vin a dozen P essa hift asa aai il sweet morsel ii in I 1 addition to tile tho regular re 11 lar food this is an excellent thins thill for tho the bahi ind and tho the coot coat glistens lilo lil ro satin batin under this lind of feeding these horses have ha re tile alia advantage of the richest kind of diet in their beans those these contain I 1 03 much nitro L cn as loan beef find for tile tho restoration of v asted muscle caused by liard hard arr work c tho the nitrogenous I 1 elements of food arc ilse useful U 1 wo IVO I 1 have no such food for our on this tide of alio world our climate freenis to bo be unfavorable for the growth of tho the crop but wo we have a substitute almost precisely constituted in tho the dried difed brewers grains that uve recently como come into the m peas have nearly the same sama as beans anti and mi lit lio be used 0 as a substitute for them lut but tho the BC th arn cow pea is a bean and the soja beau bean close related is equally rich in this needed nitrogenous mailer this bean is iho choice food for horses borges in ludia and is bcd worth cultivation here as a partial substitute for our too liy corn no doubt many of tile the common ailments of horses in amei ica aro are due to excessive corn feeding and our animals would bo be far more healthy if such food as bran or linseed oil meal quite differ ent eat now from what it was waa years ago since the oil is almost completely extracted by tho the new process were avore used more frequently dut anyhow there should bo be a greater variety provided for these valli aLlo animals to whom so BO much gratitude is duo due for their indispensable services in the field and more inore labor might ba well avell spent in the preparation of the food tho the hay should be cut finely or as it is otherwise called chaffed chaffee chaff ed this should be th the rule erule the food thus prepared is fully one third more nutritious than tile tho long hay given with whole grain the most wasteful manner of deeding ee dinga a horse this cut hay or partly hay and straw 13 is wetted with avith water sweetened with a few ounces of molasses and the ground grata gram food is 13 inked with it this is tho ordinary ration changed frequently by the mash and the grain 1 other ii kinds dolds of as ingali on resting 0 days oats may be ba given whole when the animal will relish the change and take timo time to eat cat them slowly one of tho the most acceptable green foods forn for a horse is the mixed oats oata find and peas 11 1 bushels of peas sown with 2 21 of oats on an acre and when the peas are in full blossom tho the fodder is ready for use that which is ia not used before the grain gr in yin in it but cut int into 0 chaff or it F mayl aray 1 be 0 thrashed ind and the grain ground jand and fell fed with tile tho cut str straw aw moistened with sweetened water this sweetness makes implies the food more palatable and more nutritious tor for sug sugar ar is ia the sole carbonaceous food of animals except fat as the starch and the cellulose of the food are always eba changed liged into sugar 1 by tho the digestive 1 lg estive process before it can beassie be assimilated and the sm small all quantity of sugar thus given with the food acts as R n ferment to more readily make the change of the starch of the tha food into sugar in the ll 11 stomach the digestion of food may bo be very much interfered with by mistakes in the watering this should always be done before feeding and never soon after it the water is absorbed by the intestines with great rapidity A few minutes wal will suffice to absorb three or four gallons of water aud and this thia dilutes tho the salivary secretion so is as to supply all tile water needed for the digestion of the food and aad no water will then be needed soon after feeL feeding liu this avoids the Av washing ashin 0 of undigested food from the stomach into the intestines where it tei ments find and produces much gas and causes those frequent colias that on oil the whole reduce the usefulness of our work horses fully one half tor for every attack of disease cuts os so much of the thread of life and there are very few horses that are not affected injuriously furiously ly with avith colic tho result of mistakes in feeding but more in watering caterin sufficiently to have on an appreciable result result on oil the duration of life 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