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very greedy, and will not take time to properly masticate 

 the hard corn but swallow it whole (in part at least), 

 which will do him harm instead of good ; if soaked, it is 

 comparatively soft, easily masticated, and of course more 

 easily digested, and he gets the full benefit of its strength 

 in nourishment. Two quarts of this, with two pounds of 

 hay in the morning, two pounds of hay at noon only, 

 and two quarts of corn, with six pounds of hay, at night, 

 will keep any horse in good order and healthy for short 

 drives and light work. If in the summer, and grass can 

 be substituted for hay, so much the better. At seventy- 

 five cents per bushel for corn (a bushel will yield thirty- 

 two quarts), four quarts a day will last eight days, that is 

 about ten cents a day, and ten pounds of hay at twenty 

 dollars a ton is one cent a pound, or ten cents a day : with 

 the corn is twenty cents a day, for a week is one dollar 

 and forty cents ; cheap enough. On this you can keep 

 your horse, for the work as above described, in good 

 order, provided he is otherwise properly attended to, and 

 regularly cleaned, watered, and bedded ; the latter, if in 

 the country, need cost nothing but the gathering, as green 

 weeds in the summer and leaves in the winter are all 

 that are necessary. My reader will say, what a bother to 

 weigh the hay every meal ! I say it is very little trouble; 

 a patent balance, costing twenty-five cents, weighs twenty- 

 five pounds ; tie up what you suppose two pounds of hay, 

 weigh, and regulate that and your six pounds night feed, 

 and in a few days you can guess within a fraction of the 

 amount without more weighing ; and you can save all 

 the trouble of soaking the corn for at least four months 

 in the year, from November until March, by feeding it on 

 the cob, right out of the field. Many will say it is dan- 

 gerous to feed it green, unless you feed much salt with it: 

 that is a great mistake, salt begets thirst, and much water 



