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ANIMAL MANAGEMENT. 



Linseed occasion. Linseed tea, that is the water in which Hnseed has been 



tea. cooked, is very nourishing and liked by horses. 



"Suttoo." " Suttoo " is a gruel made by stirring finely-ground gram in water, 



and is frequently given in India as part of the daily ration. 

 " Kunji." Rice water (Kunji), made by boiling the grain to a pulp and 



stirring in water, is especially useful as drink for horses which suffer 



from diarrhoea after exertion. 



Com- 

 pressed 

 mixtures. 



To be 

 damped 

 before 

 feeding. 



Weight. 



Compressed Rations. 



Various compressed food cakes have been tried and are constantly 

 improving in manufacture ; as rations on service they are, owing to 

 portability, worthy of every trial. They consist of mixtures of oats, 

 beans, maize, bran, and sometimes chaff, in various proportions, and 

 provided the original ingredients are of good quality, they are excellent 

 feeding. They should be broken up well, thoroughly damped before 

 issue, and to prevent waste, this should be done in a place sheltered from 

 wind, or a large amount of good food will get blown away. 



The weight of a compressed daily ration is usually two to four pounds 

 less than a fresh ration of similar ingredients, the absence of water 

 in the dry preparation accounting for the balance. 



"Herb- 

 age." 

 Classes 

 hay. 



A "ley. 

 "Hard 

 hay. 



Hay. 



Hay consists of dried grass and other plants which have been allowed 

 to mature in a stack. Those plants which are not true grasses are spoken 

 of of as " herbage." It was formerly the custom to speak of hay as " upland," 

 "lowland" and "water meadow," and before the introduction of modern 

 methods of drainage and farming it was possible to say from an inspection 

 of the sample to which of these three classes it belonged ; at the present 

 time, however, when adequate drainage has made such great improvement 

 in many lowlands the terms will hardly apply except as regards water 

 meadow hay which may be recognised by the presence of water grasses, 

 sedges and rushes and by its generally coarser growth. Hay is now 

 produced either on land which is, and has been for a very long time laid 

 down for this particular purpose, when it is spoken of as " meadow hay " ; or 

 from seed sown as a rotation crop which according to the number of years it 

 may be left undisturbed is spoken of as a one, two or three years' " ley, 



This variety is variously termed " seed,' 

 hay. 



mixture," "artificial" or "hard" 



