THEORY AND PRACTICE OF FEEDING. 239 
beans should carefully be avoided. Generally speaking, hacks are of small 
size, and they do not, therefore, require more than an average allowance 
of food, on which footing I have calculated their hay and corn ; but if it so 
happens that any of my readers have a hack of full size, he must make 
allowance accordingly. These horses are now very commonly allowed a 
water tank, constantly supplied with water, and in that case there is no 
necessity for domg more than to see that it is daily cleansed, and that the 
ball-cock acts properly. When they are watered from the bucket, ths 
groom generally gives it them in moderate quantity early in the morning 
and in the afternoon feed, finishing with a full allowance at night. 
Harness Horses are fed much in the same way as hacks, but if they 
are used for a close carriage and are of full size they must have more hay 
than I have named, by fully a quarter of a hundredweight weekly. 
Pontes may be kept with very little corn, one or two quarterns a day, 
according to size, being all that is generally allowed. They will eat from 
sixty pounds to seventy-five pounds of hay weekly, and they are as much 
benefited by chaff as larger horses. 
iiarm Horses are treated very differently in different localities, inde- 
pendently of the various fancies indulged in by individuals: their work 
also being subject to great changes, according to the seasons, it is necessary 
to apportion their food in the same ratio. Again, it happens sometimes 
that oats or beans are scarce and dear, and the farmer, if he grows them, 
will be inclined to sell them and use some cheaper kind of food for his 
horses, or, if he has to buy, he will still more carefully look out for a sub- 
stitute at a lower price. The following are the most usual modes of 
feeding these horses, as far as I have been able to ascertain. 
Plan 1.—Adopted throughout the Midland counties. Weekly allow- 
ance per horse in November, December and January— Pilot Meet 
13 bushel of oats, 1 peck of beans, and 1 cwt. of hay, costing for three 
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Ditto through February, March, and April— 
2 bushels of oats, 14 peck of beans, and 1 ewt. of hay, costing. . . . . 7 0 0 
Ditto May, June, and July— 
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3 pecks of oats, 1 peck of beans, and vetches or lucerne, costing . by) Co 
Ditto in August, September, and October— 
1 bushel of oats, 3 bushel of beans, clover, pea straw, &c. costing. . . . 6 0 0 
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In districts where oats are scarce, bran or pollard is mixed with beans, 
and given as follows :— 
Weekly allowance in the autumn quarter— pg ae 
1} bushel of oats, 2 pecks of split beans, and 1 ewt. of hay, costing for 
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Ditto in the winter quarter— 
2} bushels of pollard, 2 pecks of split beans, 56lbs. of swedes, and barley 
or pea straw, costing forthe threemonths. . ....... 
Ditto in the spring quarter— 
2} bushels of pollard, 2 pecks of split beans, and 13 cwt. of hay, costing . 710 0 
Ditto in the summer quarter— 
‘2 bushels of bran, 1 peck of split beans, clover, vetches, or tares, costing . 5 9 0 
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