718 Live Stock* Teams Modes of.lcffcning Expenfes of. 



To lefTen the heavy expenfe of keeping farm-horfes it has been fuggefted that 

 there are only two methods, one of which is not to turn them out in the fummer, 

 but to have them foiled conftantly in the ftahles or yards with lucern, tares, and 

 clover, as in this way, where littering is properly attended to, the manure that is 

 produced will nearly balance the expenfe of the keep, befides avoiding various 

 incon veniences attending the pafturing of horfes in the fields. The other mode 

 is that of fubftituting carrots in the place of oats as a winter food, a practice com 

 mon in the county of Suffolk, and attended with much fuccefs.* Estimating the 

 prime cod of carrots to the farmer at three pence the bumel, and that of the oats 

 at ten millings the quarter,! anc ^ allowing the cuflomary quantity of one bufhel of 

 carrots a day againft the two bufhels of oats in the week, the horfe at carrots con- 

 fumes in the proportion of is. gd. a week ; while that at oats is 2s. 6d. Befides,, 

 the fuperiority of this proportion of carrots to that of the oats, in the fupport of 

 the horfe, is very confiderable ; probably five bufhels of carrots per week would be 

 equal to it, as in thisdiftricl: they confider a bumel a day feeding highly . 



But, befides this excellent root there are others that may be made ufe of in 

 feeding horfes in order to fave oats j boiled potatoes, with a little chaff, and a few 

 carrots, have been attended with perfect fuccefs in the trials of Mr. Guthrie in 

 Scotland, keeping the horfes in fine order without any oats.H And in England 

 they have been applied in the fame way with fimilar fuccefs. 



There is another point to be regarded in the feeding of horfes, in order to its 

 being done in the moft economical manner, which is that of having as much of their 

 dry fodder as poflible, fuch as hay and ftraw of different kinds, cut into chaff, be 

 fore it is given to them with their other food. And it is probable that by having 

 the oats broken or bruifed, not ground, as has been often recommended, fome fav- 



Winter-food -To 7 tons of hay at 41. per ton 



To2 6 quarters of oats at Q8s. per quarter 

 Summer-food To grafs 26 weeks at 20s. per week 



To 13 quarters of oats - 



J. 108 12 



Or per horfe without chaff, 271. 2s. 

 * Annuls of Agriculture, vol. XXXVI. 



Thefe prices are much too low for the prefent, but they ferve to fhow the^difference in the expenfe. 

 i Annals of Agriculture, vol. XXXVI. H Ibid. 



