BOARD AND LODGING. 13 



feed from nosebags, and water from buckets, between twelve and 

 one. No whips arc nscd or carried ; tlie slowest liorses are put 

 behind where they may be touched with the reins, but that is 

 rarely necessary, and there are far more complaints of the horses 

 being too fast than too slow. Each horse in the winter <j'ets 

 18 lbs. oats, and 1-1 lbs. of cut straw a day, witli a pick of rough 

 grass on Sundays, or any convenient opportunity. First-class 

 oats on the farm are only worth about one shilling and fourpence 

 a bushel. During the coldest and wettest mouths of winter 

 the horses were worked within reach of a stable, but during the 

 greater part of the year they are turned out in covers made of 

 canvas lined with felt, in which they do quite as well if not 

 better. 



"21. — The picked men, who each take charge of six lively 

 high conditioned horses, and complete their five acres a day, are 

 paid thirty shillings a week with board and lodging. Their 

 lodging in wooden bunks is of a rough description, and there is 

 little variety in their bill of fare. Bread, meat, potatoes, and 

 " duff," with that colonial beverage, the abominable boiled tea, 

 are supplied in great profusion, but green vegetables, though, 

 easily grown on such land, are neither provided nor demanded. 



22. — At harvest time these men and horses are transferred 

 to the reapers and binders, the men getting 10s. a day for about 

 eleven hours work, and the horses working three at a time in 

 two-hour stages through the day-light, and occasionally all through 

 a moonlight night. 



Extra hands are of course employed to feed and change the 

 horses. No horse could be better adapted than the Clydesdale 

 for such work as this, and we feel thankful that it is no 

 longer done by overworked women and children, such as we 

 used to see from daylight to dark in the English harvest fields. 



THE SUFFOLK PUNCH 



2o. — Was once remarkable for liis low stout build, the loins, 

 being higher than the withers, the colour chestnut, the legs free 

 of long hair, the temper mild and docile, with a readiness to 

 hang on to a dead pull again and again, lie was seldom more 



