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" be so kept as to have hard flesh ; and they cannot be so kept 

 " unless they are fed on hard grain," 



To show the manner in which horses are kept by the New 

 York omnibus proprietors, the following is extracted from a report 

 offered to the Farmers' Club of the American Institute, and pub- 

 lished in the transactions of the Institute for 1855 : — 



Stage Line. 



Red Bird Stage Line 



Spring Street Stage Line , 



Seventh Avenue do 



Sixth Avenue, f Horses 



Railroad. t Mules 



•New York Consolidated Stage Company. 

 Washington Stables, 6 livery horses 



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" It is the object of the stage proprietors to get all the work 

 " out of their teams possible, without injury to the animals. 

 " Where the routes are shorter, the horses consequently make 

 '' more trips, so that the different amounts and proportions of 

 " food consumed are not so apparent when the comparison is 

 " made between the different lines, as when it is made also with the 

 " railroad and livery horses. The stage-horses consume most, 

 " and the livery horses least. 



" The stage-horses are fed on cut hay and corn-meal wet, and 

 " mixed in the proportion of about one pound of hay to two 

 " pounds. of meal, a ratio adopted rather for mechanical than 

 " physiological reasons, as this is all the meal that can be made to 

 "adhere to the hay. The animals eat this mixture from a deep 

 " mano-er. The New York Consolidated Stage Company use a 



* And six quarts of oats at noon. 



