MASHES — MEASURES 



Mashes. — The benefit of a mash to a sick horse is often 

 very great ; and even animals in work are none the worse for 



Martingale and Breast-plate. 



one the night before their rest day. It is not desirable, how- 

 ever, to give a mash to a horse which is going out in the 

 morning, as the tendency of this form of food is to loosen 

 the bowels. To make a bran mash, heat a pail with warm 

 water, empty it and put in 3 lbs. of bran and i ounce of salt ; 

 mix, and pour over it a little over i quart of boiling water, 

 stir, cover over with a sack, and stand for twenty minutes. 

 (See Nursing, Restoratives.) 



Meadow. — See Pasture, 



Measures (Corn).— 



2 quarts 

 2 pottles 

 2 gallons 

 4 pecks 

 2 bushels 

 4 bushels 



I pottle. 

 I gallon. 

 I peck. 

 I bushel. 

 I strike. 

 I coomb. 



4 bushels 

 2 coombs or 

 8 bushels 



4 quarters 



5 quarters 



2 loads or 10 qrs. 



= I sack. 



= I quarter. 



= I chaldron. 



= I load. 



= I last. 



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