62 The Management and Treatment of the Horse, 



nature, and not so much to the action of medicine, that 

 the credit of the most successful cases belongs ; and, as I 

 view the beautiful theory of health and disease, this con- 

 clusion is forced upon me, that man in his shortsight- 

 edness, his vanity, and selfishness, has never sufficiently 

 comprehended and appreciated the great fundamental 

 truth, that nature is ever a wise economist, doing all 

 things well. Having wandered from my subject in treat- 

 ing " Influenza " at great length, I will now turn to the 

 feeding of the horse. In feeding, the motto should be — 

 quality not quanity, as in every bushel of oats, the 

 heavier the weight the less husk there is to the bushel. 

 In feeding the cart or farm horse it is a good 

 plan to cut all its food into chaff. The quantity 

 each horse ought to have is just as much as it can eat, 

 without leaving any in its manger, this is a good system 

 to o*o by, let the horse measure its own stomach. In 

 Scotland the cart horses are fed in the following mann er 

 and I have never seen a better plan ; they take, say two 

 trusses of hay, two of clover, ten sheaves of oats un- 

 thrashed, and cut them all up together, mixing a little 

 common salt with it, about 1 lb., to the above quantity, 

 when the horses are fed a little bean and pea meal is 

 mixed with the cut food, and if slightly damped, about 

 four pounds of meal per day with the above mixture of 

 cut food will keep the heavy cart horse in good condition. 

 The Kentish farmers are, as a rule, good horse keepers ; 

 they understand that two horses well fed will do more 

 work than three half starved. The Hertfordshire farmers, 

 on the other hand, would lead one to believe from the 

 horses we see in the waggons and at plough, that they 



