40 HORSE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA. 



In the foregoing table, the analysis of oats is that of 

 good English corn, which, I would say, does not contain 

 more than half the amount of woody fibre found in the 

 Indian variety. 



The nutritive value of bran is not in accordance with 

 its chemical composition, owing to its indigestibility. 

 This want of agreement is also apparent in other foods, 

 notably in wheat and potatoes. 



The nitrogenous matters contain from 15' 4 to 16'5 

 per cent of nitrogen (Parkes). 



Nitrogenous Food The natural waste of nitrogenous 

 tissue is accelerated by exertion, though to a far lesser 

 extent than is that of fat. From the analysis of the 

 urine of men, taken while they were undergoing violent 

 exertion, it was observed that there was but a small 

 increase in the waste of nitrogenous products, which, as 

 before remarked, are excreted by the kidneys. Expe- 

 rience, however, demonstrates the necessity, in such cases, 

 of an adequate supply of nitrogen, as may be seen by 

 the good results obtained from the addition to oats of 

 beans in England or of gram, or kulthee in India 

 especially, when, from old age, or illness, the horse's 

 powers of assimilation are diminished. Such a diet, 

 however, should be carefully regulated, for an oversupply 

 is most apt to upset the animal's digestion, and to poison 

 his blood-mass by causing it to become filled with an 

 excess of deleterious nitrogenous products, which the 

 excretory organs will be unable to eliminate with suffi- 

 cient rapidity. We may often witness the baneful effects 

 in the form of diarrhoea, filled legs, and a general 



