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another quarter of a peck of oats may be added. 

 Upon this ratio, therefore, horses wliich work 

 very hard should have a larger allowance, viz. 

 from one peck to three half pecks of oats, and 

 twenty pounds of hay daily. , 



The consumption of grain by horses in this 

 kingdom is astonishing, ceconomy in this de- 

 partment, therefore, becomes an object of na- 

 tional importance. 



They who keep idle horses in a pampered 

 state, would do well to consider how much, in 

 this instance, they sacrifice the comforts of the 

 poor, to the vanity and prejudices of worthless 



The food most generally made use of con- 

 sists of hay, clover, oats, beans, and wheaten 

 bran, 



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