HORSEMANSHIP. 



next to health and careful grooming, like bruised sit?iflower 

 seed. The locust^ or carob lean, has a modified, though 

 similar, effect, and is largely used in the preparation of 

 horse condiments, being full of saccharine matter. Both 

 these seeds must be spUt or ground, and not more than half 

 a pint given in a feed. 



Lentils, or tares, are both nutritious and digestible, though 

 slightly bitter in taste. When ripe, and given sparingly in 

 conjunction with oats or barley, they answer admirably with 

 some light-hearted horses. Excessively nervous animals 

 derive much benefit from bulky succulent food. 



AVhen a horse is being "summered," i,e. laid up in 

 summer for temporary rest, lameness, or other causes, green 

 food is absolutely necessary. He wants "letting down," 

 and a radical change of diet, something that will clear the 

 whole system, yet nourish him. 



Lastly, when writing of green foods, hay, or that more 

 modern preparation known as silage, I must put in a strong 

 word or two for the new forage plant, Lathynis Sylvestris, 

 which, in the opinion of Professor Chas. F. Hope, of the 

 Yorkshire Philosophical Society,— an opinion based on 

 careful analysis of plants grown by the society— shows that 

 in the green condition, weight for weight, it is in feeding 

 quality worth double that of any other fodder plant, " twice 

 as co7icentratcd as any green food knownr To those of 

 my readers who are landed proprietors I strongly recom- 

 mend the cultivation of this most valuable addition to our 

 stock of fodder plants, which is of vigorous, though at first 

 slow, growth, robust, and a very hea\7 cropper, producing 

 seventeen tons to the acre. The hay reminds one of the 

 composition of cotton-cake, with the attraction of a delicious 

 aroma, and the sweet silage has "a nose" on it quite equal 

 to the esse bouquet of prime clover. It may safely be 



