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Feeds and Feeding. 



513. Rations for army horses. The following are the rations 

 allowed army horses in the countries noted: 



Ration. 



Government. Weight of horse. Concentrates. fioughage. 



United States, * cavalry, 950 to 1,150 Ibs. 12 Ibs. oats. ^ 



r L 14 Ibs. hay. 

 J 



corn or 

 barley, 



United States, artillery, 1,050 to 1,200 Ibs. 12 Ibs. oats, 



corn 

 barley 



3. oats, 1 



n or [ 14 Ibs. hay. 



rley. J 



Germany,* cavalry ................... 1,050 Ibs. 10 Ibs. oats.* { J^ 



Germany, cavalry-officers' ....................... 11 Ibs. oats. { ** 



Great Britain," cavalry ...................... ..... 10 Ibs. oats. { ^ j[j 



Great Britain, cavalry, severe duty ......... 12-14 Ibs. oats. { 1 | j^' 



* Wolff (Article 441) refers to the German cavalry ration as containing 

 11 pounds of oats. 



514. Rations used by street-car companies. The rations used 

 by street- car companies are interesting not only because they show 

 the feed required by animals thus worked, but, because of the 

 constant and severe labor performed by this class of animals, 

 we can learn of the food requirements of hard- worked horses. 

 The following rations a,re given by Fleming 4 as the daily allow- 

 ance for horses of some of the principal tramway (horse-car) com- 

 panies of Great Britain: 



Rations for British tramway (street-car} horses Fleming. 



Special Agent Mattes, of the Department of Agriculture, has 



1 From information furnished by Chas. Bird, Quartermaster General 

 U. S. Army, Washington. 



2 Landw. Jahrb., 1887, Suppl. TIT, p. 72. 



8 Fleming, The Practical Horse Keeper, p. 89. 



Loe. cit., p. 88. 



