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digested ; but gram and barley mixed is the most 

 nutritious and best ; and with many horses you 

 may go on increasing the barley to one-half. No 

 grain must ever be given new ; it should be from 

 eight to fifteen months old, and not more. The 

 grass, of course, should be the very best, the 

 gingwa, having a fragrant smell, and stacked 

 after the rains, though a little fresh-dried Huryoli, 

 that has been cut a few days, or a little fresh 

 lucern, may be given at night with advantage; 

 putting it down at nine o'clock, w^hen he has 

 finished his last feed. Gram should be heavy, 

 sweet, and fresh smelling, without holes in it, and a 

 sufficient quantity of it laid in for the four months, 

 that no change may take place in the quality. 

 When the gram, or barley, are very hard, give 

 them an extra turn in the grinding-stone, but do 

 not moisten the grain. If too greedy a feeder, 

 and any should be voided whole, chop one map of 

 Huryoli grass very small into it at each feed, 

 and also add one map of bran mash,* for the rule 

 is now, in a measure, to be reversed ; the grain 

 must be proportioned to the exercise, and, there- 



* If he has a natural dislike to bran, even this handful must 

 not be given, or it may have an opposite effect, and induce him 

 to swallow down the grain still more greedily, in order to get rid of 

 the taste of the bran. This would not be the case, when gram or 

 barley is given while putting into condition all boiled and mixed 



