134 HORSE SENSE. 



ment, we have found that dry bran, mixed with the oats and corn, 

 gives excellent resuUs and protects against dangers that come from feed- 

 ing stale or musty mash. 



AN EXPERIMENT WITH OMNIBUS HORSES. 



Some years ago an experiment was made by the London Omnibus 

 Comapny on 6,000 horses, to test the relative value between cut hay 

 and ground grain and whole grain and hay. They first divided the 

 horses, and 3,000 were fed the ground grain and cut hay, and the other 

 3,000 were fed the whole grain and hay, giving the latter nineteen pounds 

 of oats and thirteen pounds of hay daily, and the others were fed six- 

 teen pounds ground oats, seven and one-half pounds cut hay, and two 

 and one-half pounds cut straw. The first lot of horses got thirty-two 

 pounds, each, daily, and the latter only twenty-six pounds all told, and 

 yet they kept up well in ffesh and stood their work equally well with the 

 former. 



SAVINGS IN ECONOMIC FEEDING. 



The above system would make a saving of six pounds on each 

 horse daily, and counting this worth in that market five cents, there 

 would be a saving of $300 per day on the 6,000 horses. 



AN EXPERIMENT WITH MILL HORSES. 

 Another experiment was made with heavy mill horses, by wetting 

 the cut hay and thoroughly soaking it for twelve hours before feeding, 

 mixing the ground feed with the wet cut hay just before feeding. 



JUST THE RIGHT QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF FEED 

 SHOULD BE STUDIED. 

 In the above, the ration for each horse, to start with, was four 

 pounds dry cut hay, five pounds ground oats and barley, and a half 

 pound of brain, night and morning, and four pounds dry whole oats 

 at noon, without hay. This proved hardly sufficient for the large horses 

 and their heavy work, and it was afterwards incerased to five pounds 

 hay, five pounds ground grain and a half pound of brain, night and 

 morning, and eight pounds oats, without hay, at noon, to the perfect sat- 

 isfaction of the owners of the horses and ample feed for the largest 

 horses doing the heaviest work. 



HORSES CAN BE WELL OR MADE SICK BY FEEDS AND 

 FEEDING. 

 The above experiment proved to be a saving of ten pounds of hay 

 and six pounds of grain daily to each horse, over the old whole grain 

 and hay method, besides under the old system many horses were sick 

 with colic and inflammation of the stomach and bowels, and for years 

 a sick horse has not been seen, since the new system has been 

 adopted. We would say, however, that no fixed and definite rules can 

 be laid down for feeding all horses, but by careful attention to the man- 

 ner in which they eat and the condition of the bowels, every farmer 

 may become quite a master of the art of feeding. 



