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vest may advantageously be burned. If they 

 are fed to the horse the trash will reduce the 

 feeding value of his ration and the seeds will 

 go through him whole, to be carted off with the 

 manure, scattered on the ground and in time 

 reproduce their kind. Good clean oats, as has 

 been stated before, contains about 18 pounds of 

 husk and 14 pounds of kernel to the measured 

 bushel, supposing that the same weighs 32 

 pounds. If there is a lot of other innutritions 

 matter in the feed, the proportion of nutriment 

 to the whole amount fed is reduced in just that 

 proportion. 



Every season there is more or less immature 

 or soft corn on every farm some years more, 

 some years less. There never was a year yet 

 when the frost did not get somebody's corn 

 patch. This immature corn is of course left 

 on the stalks as long as possible and then 

 the freeze-up comes and the ears look hard 

 enough. Husking is done and the corn goes 

 into the crib. By and by the heating process 

 takes place and the corn becomes moldy. Per- 

 haps continued cold may keep the ears looking 

 well enough, but the mold is there just the same 

 and its germs spring into life as soon as the 

 damaged grain reaches the equine stomach. If 

 there is one thing that is worse than another 

 for horses in the way of feed it is moldy grain. 

 It should never be fed to them. If it is Hob- 

 son's choice soft corn or go without then 



