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together with ear corn, oats, and a mixture of dried beet pulp, bran, 

 and oil cake for concentrates and in addition a few carrots daily. The 

 six horses, Nos. 7-12, were the regular farm teams and can be compared 

 with the six Horticultural Department horses as they averaged nearly 

 the same in weight and did about the same amount of work during the 

 period, as the work-report given later will show. A better way would 

 have been to divide the teams, feeding one horse of each team on the 

 regular ration and the other on the cheap ration; that plan will 

 probably be followed in the continuation of the work, but was impos- 

 sible at the time. The remaining four horses, Nos. 13, 14, 15 and 16, 

 were fed on the cheap ration the same as 7-12, but they were at rest 



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a great part of the time and were not fed as heavily as the others. 

 The feeding was all done by one man who kept records of all feed con 

 sumed and all work done by each horse. The six horses, Nos. 1-0, 

 belonging to the Horticultural Department, were fed by the same 

 feeder but under the direction of the department teamsters. The horses 

 were weighed at the beginning and at the close of the period, weights 

 being taken at 10:30 a. m. and 4:00 p. m. of each day and the average 

 of the two weights taken as the correct one. 



THE HORSES. 



The horses used were all in good condition and had been kept on the 

 same ration until the beginning of the test. The six horses kept on 

 the regular ration, Nos. 10, were twelve to thirteen hundred pound 



