IX.J CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



but, you see the thing is got without labour, and 

 therefore it is cheap. 



152. Horse feeding. Corn, shelled or in 

 the ear, is the very best food for horses. They 

 will work longer u])on it ; they will go quicker 

 upon it, and they will bear heat and cold upon 

 it better than when fed upon any other food. 

 Those who have seen the horses in America, who 

 have travelled in the American stages, wlio have 

 observed the life with which the horses trip along 

 under a heat, sometimes, of a hundred and six de- 

 grees, which would absolutely kill every stagecoach 

 horse in England, will want nothing to convince 

 them of the excellence of this food, which con- 

 tains so much more of nutrition, in proportion to 

 its bulk, than any other thing that a horse will 

 eat, and that he can eat with safety and conve- 

 nience. In America the corn is too valuable to 

 l}e the sole food, or any part of the food, of farm 

 horses, which are, therefore, in case of hard 

 work, fed with rye, barley, or oats ; but, if horses 

 be wanted to perform extraordinary work, such 

 as fine gig-horses, or wanted to travel far in a day, 

 they are always fed upon corn : in quantity about 

 one- tlm^d of \vhsLt we give in oats. When my horse 

 has, in winter time, little to do, 1 give him a pint 

 in the morning and a pint at night, mixed with a 

 good parcel of finely cut straw; and three times 

 the quantity is at all times enough. Here, there 

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