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habit of wasting oats by throwing them out of 

 the manger in their greediness to get at them. 

 I need scarcely say chaff should be fresh, that is, 

 not laid by long after being cut, and of the very 

 best of hay ; I have sometimes found a little cut 

 from pure clover-hay coax horses to eat their corn 

 if mixed with it, when off their appetite : in a 

 general way, I should say a little chaff should 

 always be given with corn, unless, on the morning 

 of hunting. 



