156 HORSES AND RIDINa. 



open basket-work measure to feed the horses from, 

 but the corn should always be served out by the 

 wooden measure, otherwise there is no certainty of 

 the horse getting the proper quantity. 



A corn bin will of course be required, and this 

 should consist of at least three compartments ; one 

 for oats, one for beans or peas, and one for bran. 

 There is no peculiar feature about the corn bin, 

 except that as the food put into it is generally kept 

 in sacks, it should not hold less in each compartment 

 than about a sack and a quarter, so that it can be 

 filled by putting the contents of a new sack in before 

 it has become quite empty. This I need hardly say 

 is the smallest size. After that, the size must of 

 course depend upon how many horses are fed from 

 it, and how much corn is consequently required. 



In some stables there is a spout from the 

 granary above, so that a feed can be drawn out from 

 a quantity of oats, much in the same way as you 

 draw a glass of beer from a barrel. I do not know 

 of any advantage there is in this plan, and it labours 

 under the disadvantage of your not being able to see 

 how the corn is going. 



I think a spout or pipe with a wide funnel- 

 shaped opening in the floor of the granary, and a 

 smaller opening immediately over the corn bin, 

 would be a useful practical addition, so that when a 

 number of sacks of oats are placed in the granary, 

 the groom could empty one of them down the pipe 



