78 BREEDING. 



effect this, give a warm mash every mornmg, 

 composed of brown malt three quarts, and 

 one of cracked oatmeal (commoniy called 

 grits), let the water be poured on boiling 

 hot, and repeatedly stirred up till of a pro- 

 per warmth, when it may be given in either 

 field or stable, unless any severity of wea- 

 ther should render the latter most eli<^ible. 

 In the evening of each day, give half a 

 gallon of good sound mealy oats, with the 

 addition of a pint of old beans, either whole 

 or split, as will be most readily taken by the 

 subject for whom they are intended : these 

 feeds, exclusive of their great nutritive pro- 

 perty, will powerfully assist in retaining the 

 aliment in the stomach by their restringent 

 quality, thereby contributing largely to tiie 

 general purport of the whole. 



This plan should be persevered in for six 

 days without intermission, when an increased 

 supply of milk from the inare may be ear- 

 nestly expected : birt should that improve- 

 ment not become perceptible, she may be 

 reasonably deemed a very poor nurse, and 

 no other extraordinary means be attempted 

 to assist the imperfection ; but care must be 



