44 VARIETIES OF FOOD. 



85. — Ponies and small horses must be fed in proportion to 

 their size. They do better without corn than large horses will 

 do. A child's pony should not have corn unless its ivork is 

 regular and fast. They will be more gentle and reliable without 

 corn, but they should get some roots or grass with their hay. 



86. — With hard worked cart or plough horses, one-third of 

 the corn should be beans. Barley may take the place of oats 

 with them if cheaper. ]\Iaize or wheat may form part of their 

 food if all the hay or straw is cut into chaff and mixed with their 

 corn. 



87. — For hard worked hunters, omnibus, coach or cab 

 horses, about one-third of the corn may be beans, the I'est had 

 better be oats or barley, or both. 



88. — For carriage horses all the corn should be oats, beans 

 are too stimulating for light work, and maize imparts an 

 unpleasant smell to the horses that eat it. 



89. — All corn is better crushed for horses when it can be 

 done at a moderate cost. With young horses getting plenty of 

 chaff with their corn, it is not necessary, but with a very old 

 horse it should always be done. It is desirable too that oats 

 ghould be crushed when given to horses that are working on 

 land from which a crop of very clean wheat is expected. Barley 

 goes farther when boiled, but should only be given in any large 

 quantity to horses at slow work. Bran should be given 

 occasionally especially if roots are not used. Sharps may with 

 advantage, either wholly or partially, take the place of any other 

 corn for horses at any slow work, however hard. We have used 

 them largely with all kinds of horses. There is no kind of corn 

 on which horses look better. They may be too fattening for 

 fast ATork. They must be largely mixed with chaff, and strictly 

 allowanced, or from their excessively nutritious character they 

 will founder almost as certainly as wheat. 



90. — Hay is a term applied to dry grass of any description. 

 It may be so well made and from such good herbage that horses 

 will look well and work well on it, without any corn ; it may be 

 so bad as to be unfit to put* before a A-aluable horse, and most 

 injurious to any. ^leadow hay is the name giveai to hay made 



