120 ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON STOCK FEEDS AND FEEDING 



sleep and feel well. An unclean bed is liable to produce sickness. 



Salt. A little salt occasionally is required by horses to keep 

 the body in good tone. This may be supplied in the rock or 

 pulverized form. 



Wintering Working Horses. In the winter when there is prac- 

 tically no work for the horse comfortable quarters should be 

 provided. Coarse roughage as corn stover, straw, etc. may be 



Fig. 17. Draft type : Clydesdale after Good. 



used to advantage until spring time. About 6 or 7 weeks before 

 the working period sets in the horses should be given a light 

 grain ration and exercised to fit them for work. 



System in Feeding. Dalrymple in Louisiana Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Bui. 115, says: 



"A feeder may have all the information necessary concerning 

 feeding standards, balanced rations, nutritive ratios, etc., and yet 

 he cannot possibly secure the maximum of good results from the 



