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THE MODERN SYSTEM OF FARRIERY. 



RYE GRASS. 



Rye Grass affords a valuable article of food, 

 but is inferior to the tare. It is not so nutri- 

 tive ; it is apt to scour ; and occasionally, and 

 late in the spring, it has appeared to become 

 injurious to the Horse. 



CLOVER. 



Clover, for soiling the Horse, is inferior to 

 the tare and the rye grass, but neverthe- 

 less, is useful when they cannot be obtained. 

 Clover hay is, perhaps, preferable to meadow 

 hay for chaff; it will sometimes tempt the 

 sick Horse, and may be given with advantage 

 to those of slow and heavy work ; but custom 

 seems properly to have forbidden it to the 

 hunter and the hackney. 



LUCERN. 



' Lucern, where it can be obtained, is prefer- 

 able even to tares, and sainfoin is superior 

 to lucern. Althougli they contain but a small 

 quantity of nutritive matter, it is easily di- 

 gested, and perfectly assimilated ; they speedily 

 put both muscle and fat on the Horse that is 

 worn down by labour, and they are almost a 

 specific for hide-bound. Some farmers have 

 thought so highly of lucern as to substitute it 

 for oats. This may do for the agricultural 

 Horse of slow and not hard work ; but he 

 from whom speedier action is sometimes re- 

 quired, and the Horse of all work, must have 

 a proportion of hard meat within him. 



The Swedish Turnip is an article of food 

 the value of which has not been sufficiently 

 appreciated, and particularly for agricultural 

 Horses. 



CARROTS. 



The virtues of this root are not too greatly 

 esteemed. There is little food of which the 

 Horse is fonder. Some farmers allow a bushel 

 of carrots a day, with chaff, without any oats ; 

 and the Horses are said to be equal to all 

 slow or agricultural work. 



POTATOES. 



Potatoes have been sliced with advantage 

 in their raw state, and mixed with the chaff ; 

 but, where there has been convenience to boil 

 or steam them, the benefit has been greater. 

 Some have given boiled potatoes alone, and 

 Horses have preferred them even to the oat ; 

 but it is better to mix them with the manger 

 feed, in the proportion of one pound of pota- 

 toes to two and a half of the other ingredients. 



CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NUTRIMENT CON- 

 TAINED IN THE FOLLOWING VEGETABLES. 



1000 parts of wheat contain 955 parts of 

 nutritive matter; barley, [920; oats, 743; 

 peas, 574 ; beans, 570 ; potatoes, 230 ; red 

 beet, 148; parsnips, 99; carrots, 98. 



Of the grasses, 1000 parts of the meadow 

 cat's tail contain at the time of seeding 98 

 parts of nutritive matter ; narrow-leaved mea- 

 dow grass in seed, and sweet-scented soft 

 grass in flower, 95 ; narrow-leaved and flat- 

 stalked meadow grass in flower, fertile mea- 

 dow grass in seed, and tall fescue, in flower, 

 93 ; Swedish turnips, 64 ; common turnips, 

 42 ; sainfoin, and broad-leaved and long- 

 rooted clover, 39 ; white clover, 32 ; and 

 lucern, 23. 



