88 THE ECONOMICS OF FEEDING HORSES 



In these pages are described those methods which 

 the writer, with no pretensions to a monopoly of 

 wisdom in horse management, has found to be satis- 

 factory. Whenever practicable, the provender should 

 be kept in a special chamber. For a large stud of 

 horses this should be a good size, to allow for shooting 

 out the sacked supplies, or in some cases mixing, 

 if the corn and chaff are supplied separately. A 

 loft above the stable, providing it does not allow of 

 contamination by vitiated hot air from below or dust 

 dropping from above, answers quite well. Feeding 

 barrows can be filled from a shoot with an open sleeve 

 on the lower end. 



Where three or four horses are kept each of the 

 drivers may be supplied with a small galvanized iron 

 corn-bin, large enough to hold a week's supply. Chaff 

 can be kept in a receptacle to which all have access. If 

 each carter has a key to his bin, then no excuses can 

 be urged when it is necessary to complain of a horse's 

 condition. 



In studs of twelve or more animals the feeding should 

 be entrusted to a "horse-keeper," and the carters 

 should not be allowed to have anything to do with 

 feeding. In still larger stables different individuals will 

 carry out the feeding, according to the stable-staff arrange- 

 ments. A "feeder," however, must be an observant 

 man, and able to notice any peculiarity of appetite in 

 any animal, and vary his serving in accordance with 

 this. Inasmuch as refusal of food is often the first 

 manifestation of sickness, the value of a good " feeder " 

 cannot be over-estimated. When bran mashes are given 

 periodically, attention must be given to the possibility of 



