FEEDING. 23 



At the same time moisten half a bucket of bran with 

 a gallon of water. When the linseed has soaked for 

 four hours, a hole must be made in the middle of the 

 bran, and the linseed mass mixed into the bran mass. 

 The whole forms one feed. Should time be an object, 

 boil slowly half a pint of linseed in two quarts of 

 water, and add it to half a bucket of bran which had 

 been previously steeped for half an hour or an hour in 

 a gallon of water. 



If a cold is present, or an animal is delicate, the bran 

 can be saturated with boiling water, of which a little 

 more can be added to warm it when given. 



Carrots, when a horse is delicate, will be found 

 acceptable, and are both nutritious and wholesome as 

 food. In spring and summer, when vetches or other 

 green food can be had, an occasional treat of that sort 

 conduces to health where the work is sufficiently mode- 

 rate to admit of soft feeding. When horses are coat- 

 ing in spring or autumn, or weak from fatigue or 

 delicacy, the addition to their food of a little more 

 nutriment may be found beneficial. The English 

 white pea is milder and not so heating as beans, and 

 may be given half a pint twice daily, mixed with the 

 ordinary feeding, for from one to three or four weeks, 

 as may be deemed advisable. 



When an animal is " off his feed," as it is called, at- 

 tention should be immediately directed to his manger, 

 which is often found to be shamefully neglected, the 

 bottom of it covered with gravel, or perhaps the ends 

 and corners full of foul matter, such as the sour re- 

 mains of the last bran-mash and other half-masticated 

 leavings. 



The introduction of any greasy or fetid matter into 



