398 CRUSHED AND BRUISED OATS. 



quantity for these horses varies from twelve to sixteen or eighteen pounds 

 per day. Stage and mail horses get about the same allowance. Some will 

 not consume above fourteen pounds, others will manage nearly eighteen. In 

 most stables some other corn is used. For every pound of barley or beans 

 that may be given, rather more than an equal weight is taken off the ordinary 

 allowance of oats. Saddle horses receive about twelve pounds of oats, cart 

 horses from ten to fourteen." -John Stewart, " Stable Economy" p. 



FIG. 203. FIG. 204. 



APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS OF ROUND QUART MEASURES. 

 DIAMETER. DEPTH. 



1 qt. 5 3-8 inches. 2 7-8 inches. 



2 qt. 6 3-4 inches. 3 3-4 inches. 

 4 qt. 8 1-2 inches. 4 3-4 inches. 



" Where we cannot always be present and must trust to subordinates, 

 the only way is to make a fair, liberal, but not profuse allowance ; and if 

 things on that allowance are done well, it is bad policy to notice any little 

 advantage those subordinates may derive on particular occasions. 



" We now come to the kind of horse I will suppose the reader about to 

 keep, namely, a moderate sized one, for moderate work in harness or for the 

 saddle. For such a horse, four quarterns* of corn and a trussf of hay in 

 four days are quite sufficient ; if a horse, merely to ride for an airing, three 

 quarterns are enough with perhaps a trifling addition in that case to his hay." 

 Charles Brindley, " The Pocket and the Stud," pp. 126, 127. 



CRUSHED AND BRUISED OATS. 



" Next to having oats good and of a proper age, it is a matter of vast 

 importance to give them crushed or bruised to all horses ; for this an oat 

 bruiser is desirable, as they should be bruised fresh and fresh, that is, I should 



* Four quarterns equal one peck. t One truss is equal to 56 Ibs. 



