FEEDS AND FEEDING 



much as human beings in their physical needs, 

 and a change of diet is as grateful to a horse 

 as to a man. Half a cup of molasses mixed 

 with the oats and bran, or a change from mixed 

 hay to oat and pea hay makes a good variety oc- 

 casionally. Horses should be watered before 

 feeding as the water passes directly through the 

 stomach and small intestines to the caecum (one 

 of the large intestines) . Hay should not be fed 

 at noon if horses are working, unless ample 

 time is allowed them to rest and digest the food. 

 There are innumerable books on cattle-feed- 

 ing; but a few simple rules will suffice for the 

 man willing to give some thought to the subject. 

 Cows, of course, in their natural wild state 

 merely gave sufficient milk to nourish their calves 

 until they learned to eat grass, when the moth- 

 ers remained dry until the following spring. 

 Man, by care and scientific feeding, has so de- 

 veloped bossy's capacity of milk-giving that she 

 now sustains the flov>^ until within a few weeks of 

 cal' ing again, 'i his has been done by supply- 

 ing food whose chemical constituents are found 

 in the cow's milk. Food is defined as any ma- 

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