42 Ma7iagement a7id Treatment of tJie Horse. 



quantity, as in every busliel of oats, the heavier 

 the weight, the less husk there is to the bushel. 

 In feeding the cart or farm horse it is a good 

 plan to cut all its food into chaff. The quantity 

 each horse ought to have is just as much as 

 it can eat, without leaving any in its manger, 

 this is a good system to go by, let the horse 

 measure its own stomach. In Scotland the cart 

 horses are fed in the following manner, and I 

 have never seen a better plan; they take, say 

 two trusses of hay, two of clover, ten sheaves of 

 oats unthrashed, and cut them all up together, 

 mixing a little common salt with it, about 1 lb-, 

 to the above quantity ; when the horses are fed, 

 a little bean and pea meal is mixed with the cut 

 food, and if slightly damped, about four pounds 

 of meal per day with the above mixture of cut 

 food will keep the heavy cart horse in good con- 

 dition. 



Many farmers adopt different systems of feed- 

 ing, according to the district and quality of land 

 they till. Some of the best feeders give two 

 bushels of oats, one peck of old beans, 20 lb. of 

 linseed cake, 14 packets of Thorley's or other 

 cattle spice, with pulped mangold, carrot, or in 

 the summer, cut green food, per week ; this quan- 

 tity is quite sufhcient for the heavy shire horse, 

 such as is represented in the accompanjdng plate. 



The Kentish farmers are, as a rule, good horse 

 keepers ; they understand that two horses well 

 fed will do more work than three half starved. 

 The Hertfordshire farmers, on the other hand, 

 would lead one to believe, from the horses we see 



