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If he does not overreach barefooted it will show that the 

 shoeing is the cause of it, and then the lightest shoeing you 

 can have would naturally improve him. 



Mr. James Cheesman (of Southborough) . Have you had 

 any experience in feeding dry brewers' grain as a possible 

 substitute for hay and oats ? A great many owners of thor- 

 oughbred stock in the New England States, and particularly 

 in Massachusetts, Malcolm Forbes and Col. Henry S. Russell, 

 have used that with very gi'eat success. Have you had any 

 experience in that direction ? 



Mr. Russell. I have never used dried brewers' grain for 

 feeding horses, but I am aware that it is a very valuable ma- 

 terial for the purpose. It is highly recommended by gen- 

 tlemen whose experience is greater than mine. If I were 

 conveniently situated I should try it. Your suggestion will 

 lead me to do so. 



Ex-Governor Hoard. By every test that we can make, 

 and by the reinforcement of a good deal of experience, 

 clover should be a much more valuable food for a horse than 

 timothy, and yet in the general judgment timothy is worth 

 from two to three dollars more per ton than clover hay. I 

 have a friend in Wisconsin who has been induced to try 

 clover, and he finds that clover hay, pound for pound, pro- 

 duces a much stronger and more vigorous condition of the 

 horses than timothy. I understand that some livery man in 

 Boston, I cannot now say who, has made some experiment, 

 and I would like to know if that has been brought to your 

 notice at all. 



Mr. Russell. I have tried it myself. I usually have a 

 considerable part of my hay of clover. I have kept it sep- 

 arate, and have fed horses upon it. My experience is very 

 favorable to it. I think that clover is fully as good as any 

 other hay that we can give a horse. I have had the opinion 

 in times past from trial that Kentucky bluegrass was the best 

 grass for feeding horses, but the difficulties I have had with 

 growing it and keeping it from tufting and getting a good 

 crop from it alone, led me to use clover in with it, so that 

 clover and bluegrass together have been the mainstay of my 

 horses for years at a time. I think that clover hay is admi- 

 rably adapted to horses and. In fact, to all stock. 



