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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 substitutes 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 29.6 cents per day, estimating the feed at current prices. The horses lost on - an average of 11 pounds each. Six horses 'gere 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 was 12.9 cents, and the average loss In live weight for each horse four pounds. |