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for should the horse get accustomed to such a 

 mixture, he would afterwards refuse his corn 

 without it : for this reason I always gave them as 

 separate food ; and, if bought at a proper season 

 of the year, by the ton, in the country they are 

 by no means an expensive one, though they be- 

 come extremely so when a London coachman can 

 persuade his employer that they are necessary for 

 his horses, buys them by the bunch, consumes two 

 of those in his own family, and, if he is delicate 

 as to conscience, gives the third to his horses ; if 

 not, they of course, all go the same way. Carrots, 

 if kept in a dry place in sand, will keep a long 

 time, or in sand they will keep out of doors, if 

 covered with straw, and then banked up with 

 earth. 



CHAFF. 



We must be not quite inattentive even to a 

 small item in stable feeding the produce of 

 hay, namely, chaff. This is rather a plebeian 

 term, as connected with racing or hunting stables, 

 and, I believe, in the time of even our fathers 

 was but little used in such establishments ; it is, 

 however, a most wholesome and necessary adjunct 

 to corn for all sorts of horses ; it prevents them 

 bolting their oats, causes proper mastication, and, 

 further, gets horses that are gluttons out of the 



