THE FEEDING OF LIVE STOCK. 169 
A writer in the Breeders’ Gazette (Jan. 11, 
1893) feeds horses to be shipped to city markets 
with half oats and half shelled corn. To this 
grain he adds one pint of oil-cake meal per 
feed. He feeds all the grain they will eat up 
clean, and liberally of hay at night and only at 
night. While horses should never be fat, those 
poor in flesh must be fed up to a suitable con- 
dition for shipment. 
For the use of the by-products of corn for 
horses the reader is referred to the experience 
of Prof. Caldwell, given further on in this chap- 
ter under by-products. 
No one need hesitate at feeding horses with 
the dried corn plant in place of hay. Ata lib- 
eral estimate three pounds of fodder may be 
considered equal to one pound of timothy hay. 
lf the fodder was carefully harvested and well 
cured probably two pounds would be its equiv- 
alent. Silage does not seem so well suited for 
horses, although a small amount of it may be 
fed with safety and with beneficial results. Ten 
or 15 Ibs., in the writer’s opinion, would he 
ample. See reference to silage for horses un- 
der chapter on silos and silage. 
Cattle.—No kind of grain is relished by cat- 
tle more than corn-meal, while well-preserved 
corn-fodder or silage is becoming more and 
more popular as rough feed for these animals. 
For dairy cattle this food is unexcelled for giv- 
