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liorse is quite generally practised. The proportions 

 usually given are about sixteen to twenty pounds of 

 ground corn and oats daily, with eight or ten pounds 

 of chaffed hay, the ratio of corn to oats being gener- 

 ally about two to one, though this depends very 

 much on the relative prices of these grains. Among 

 farmers this practice may be, and often is, modified 

 with advantage, the chaffed stover of corn being 

 more or less blended with the hay, or substituted for it. 



Some men are accustomed to regard oats as the 

 peculiar and essential feed of the horse, without 

 which he can scarcely exist, and with which he needs 

 little besides. It is undoubtedly true, that this grain 

 is well suited, and congenial to the nature of the 

 horse, and no other is perhaps more . so. Eut this 

 will scarcely justify the practice of making oats his 

 exclusive feed, nor of limiting his diet to oats and hay. 

 According to principles of physiology, as well as on 

 evidence derived from experience, the horse, like every 

 other animal, requires variety in his food, and cannot 

 without it maintain a condition of perfect health and 

 vigor. 



YALTJE OF CORN FOE CATTLE. In the management 

 and feeding of neat cattle, there are several classes of 

 them to be considered ; namely, young stock, milch 

 cows, working cattle, and beeves. For each of these, 

 Indian corn is found useful, and if the object is to 

 produce the highest degree of thrift in the animal at 

 the least expense to the owner, and to support the 

 largest amount of stock on a given extent of ground, 

 then Indian corn becomes not only useful, but indis- 



