72 ON THE CECONOMY OF THE STABLE. 



ordinate labour. I have been accuftomed to 

 ufe them for years, in all forms, and to all 

 defcriptions of Horfes. They are either given 

 in Spring and Autumn, to high-fed horfes, as a 

 change of diet, at the rate of one feed per day, 

 in lieu of a feed of corn, or as full fubfiPience 

 to others. They ought to be waflied clean, 

 and if large, cut into flat and fizeable pieces. 

 They are occafionally to be purchafed in the 

 London markets, at a price fufficiently mode- 

 rate for horfe food, perhaps at ten-pence j?^(?r 

 bufhel. The quantity for a feed is from half a 

 peck to a peck. 



The orderly periods of feeding with corn in 

 this country, are morning,, noon, and night ; 

 the quantities each time either a quarter, or 

 half a peck, with, or without, about two hand- 

 fuls of beans, according to the horfe's flate of 

 body. Much greater care than is common, 

 ought to be had to hfiing the oats clean from 

 dull, and the dung of mice. Water fliould be^ 

 allowed v^^ithout fail twice a day. i have often 

 heard of the hay and water fyflem of certain 

 ceconomical flables, calculated to furnifli the 

 horfe with a carcafe, and fave the expence of 

 corn ; but there is alfo an error not unfrequent 

 among ftable people, who fuppofe w^ater to be 

 ai belt but a kind of necefliiry evil^ to Horfes, 

 and therefore think it a point gained, w^hen- 

 ever they can find an opportunity to abridge 



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