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horses as well as my own, he had an old 

 favourite that I fed wholly on barley, that is, as 

 corn feed. I tried him repeatedly on oats with 

 beans, but a few days showed the change both of 

 condition and spirits ; so barley he ate till the day 

 of his death, which did not occur till he had carried 

 my father thirteen successive seasons, and was 

 twenty-four years old. He went at that age as 

 well as ever he did in his life, had not the vestige 

 of a windgall on either leg, never was lame, nor 

 had an ailment of any sort. He was suddenly 

 seized with paralysis of the spine, died, and was 

 buried with all due honours. 



I believe that barley soaked in water and then 

 left to sprout is a good thing to bring horses out 

 of work into condition, but I never tried it. 

 Barley, like all stable corn, must, of course, be of 

 a sufficient age, and bruised. 



CAEROTS. 



Having had so many horses of all sorts under 

 my care, I have used carrots in large quantities ; 

 still I do not mean so as to the quantity given 

 each horse. Towards spring, when horses have 

 been many months highly fed on corn, they are 

 extremely serviceable, indeed necessary ; in winter 

 I used them very sparingly. They used to be 

 given to race-horses in far greater quantities than 



