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other very effective mixture for feeding horses and 

 which is considered as equal to 220 pounds of oats 

 consists of 154 pounds of corn, 10 pounds of ground 

 meat, and 11 pounds of chopped straw. 



As is generally known street car and bus com- 

 panies in Europe as well as in the United States 

 have extensively tested the feeding of corn to horses 

 for the purpose of determining not only its suita- 

 bility for substitution in the place of oats but also 

 its possible effect on the health of horses. In 

 England ten street car companies determined upon 

 a ration of four pounds of corn, six pounds oats, 

 two pounds beans and peas, and one-third pound 

 of bran. In Leipsic a ration of ten pounds of corn 

 and three pounds of oats was fed to bus horses at 

 hard work. Horses, after a continued use of this 

 ration, were in better condition than when on an 

 exclusive oat diet and the coat was smoother and 

 sleeker. It was concluded from these experi- 

 ments that oats had been somewhat overestimated 

 by horsemen and that an exclusive oat ration was 

 not only not necessary but not even as desirable 

 as mixed grain. It has been found that corn is 

 well adapted to the production of energy in work 

 horses. Fivelbs. of corn may be substituted for six 

 Ibs. of oats for farm horses. When the ration con- 

 sists of part oats and part corn it is well to feed 

 the oats during the day and the corn in the evening 

 since the corn is less readily digested than the oats. 

 Before feeding corn may be soaked for twenty-four 

 hours or may be fed in the form of corn meal, corn 

 and cob meal, shelled corn without grinding or 

 cracking, or even in the ear. In Utah the use of a 

 ration of corn meal and timothy hay did not sus- 

 tain work horses as well as oats and clover. This, 

 however, was to be expected since the protein con- 



