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ROOTS, HOW TO USE, 



witli cari-ots at first. Carrots are relaxing, parsnips are fattening, 

 Swedes are the best roots to give a horse in large quantities, 

 mangolds improve in late spring when other roots deteriorate, 

 kohl rabi is more suited for milch cows than for horses, potatoes 

 should not be given in large quanties and should be either boiled 

 or pulped. All other roots are best pulped and mixed with chaff, 

 but where there is no convenience for that they may be sliced, 

 or merely washed and put in the manger for the horses to gnaw 

 to pieces themselves. For fast horses the quantity should never 

 he large, but a small daily allowance keeps hard fed horses from 

 getting " stale," stiff, and husky, and adds years to their life. 

 With farm horses they keep the wind right, which so often goes 

 wrong with great quantities of hay alone, and to some extent 

 take the place of green food during the winter, so that the root 

 fed horse comes up from grass or i-eturns to it without any 

 ■extreme or dangerous clianwe to affect his dijjestive organs. 



