200 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



more size. I had one acre of Southern dent corn, and two 

 acres or a little more of Blunt's prolific. 



Mr. Russell. You say you feed horses on ensilage : can 

 you state how much ensilage you feed to a horse ? 



Mr. Wake. I feed them forty pounds a day ; and those 

 that eat forty pounds a day have a small quantity of hay and 

 grain. 



Mr. Russell. What do you mean by a " small quantity 

 of hay " ? About how much? 



Mr. Ware. I should say five pounds, perhaps. 



Mr. Russell. How much grain do you feed each horse ? 



Mr, Ware. I should say two quarts to a meal. And 

 allow me to say that those horses are not race-horses : they 

 are horses I use on my farm. I drive them moderately, but 

 they prick up their ears very nicely since I have given them 

 ensilage. I have a light carriage ; and I have felt some little 

 fear, as I belong to the Essex County Agricultural Society, 

 that I might be called to account for driving fast horses. 



Mr. Russell. If I fed a horse forty pounds of any nutri- 

 tious food, five pounds of hay, and six quarts of grain, I 

 should do it solely for the purpose of getting manure. 



Mr. Ware. You understand that this ensilage is supposed 

 to contain about seventy or eighty per cent of water? 



Mr. Russell. I should say it was entirely useless for 

 nutrition, if a horse could get away with that amount, five 

 pounds of hay, and with two quarts of meal at a feeding. 

 Are your horses at work ? 



Mr. Ware. Not hard, but steady work. 



Mr. Russell. For a horse not at hard work, I call four 

 or five quarts of oats and eight pounds of hay a full ration. 



Question. How much water does a horse drink in the 

 course of a day ? 



Mr. Russell. Horses vary. Horses are like men, — some 

 of them are thirstier than others. 



Mr. . I asked that question because the ensilage 



that horses eat contains all the water they want. 



Mr. Russell. I am sure that Mr. Ware does not have 

 any trouble about watering his horses. If he gets forty 

 pounds of any sort of food into them, besides that hay and 

 grain, I think he is wasting his ensilage. 



Mr. Ware. I said five pounds of hay. I do not know 

 how many pounds, but a very small quantity. 



