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cced 5 s. for each horse ; a sum never to be taken into con- 

 sideration, compared to the difference in point of condition, 

 in which he has always found his horses under that system, 

 compared to that of former seasons, when they had a feed 

 of oats in lieu of the feed of boiled barley. Although he is 

 clearly of opinion, that one lippie of boiled bailey per day, 

 is of great use to cart or plough horses, still he would not 

 recommend more, it being well known, that barley is very 

 apt to scour horses too much j but the feed of oats, com- 

 pletely corrects too great a tendency of that sort The bar- 

 ley that is used for boiling, is all the inferior sort produced 

 on the farm.* Mr Wilson of Simprin, who has had con- 

 siderable experience in the feeding of horses, has always 

 found oats, beans, and hay, with a mush of boiled barley in 

 the evening, the best feeding, when he wanted work done. 

 Swedish turnips, or steamed potatoes, he found, not only a 

 cheap tood, but sufficiently nutritive for young horses, and 

 full-grown horses, when doing little work. It is singular, 

 that though boiled barley is found to answer, bulled oats 

 should not be so much approved of. 



The use of fuvz or whins has also been tried, and found 

 to answer, when properly bruised. 



The soiling of horses, however, or giving them cut green 



* Mr Maclaurin has also used many bolls of barley for horses, never 

 altogether by itself, for hard- wrought horses, but mixed with oats and 

 beans, when it answered well. He has very frequently also boiled it 

 with beans, as mash for hard-wrought horses, mixed with bran, which 

 is exceedingly salutary for them. He observes, that there is great nou- 

 rishment contained in barley ; it is very weighty, but it is thought too 

 laxative for horses at quick hard work, to be used entirely by itself. A 

 judicious mixture of it, however, among their oats, would improve that 

 food exceedingly, and he has no doubt that horses would be able to stand 

 their work better. But the price of barley, for these some years pastj 

 has precluded the general use of that grain in that way. 



