FEEDING AND CONDITION 49 



Beans and peas are very useful, though they 

 should not form a staple article of food. But 

 when the work is heavy a handful of split beans 

 or peas added to each feed tempts a horse with 

 a delicate appetite and moreover helps to keep 

 him healthy and up to the mark. 



Green food such as carrots, or if they are not 

 procurable swede turnips, should be given at least 

 two or three times a week amongst the corn. 

 When the work has been very hard and horses 

 have been inclined to be off their feed I have 

 given something of the sort every day just to 

 vary their food. Celery is an excellent thing 

 and horses are very fond of it and they also like 

 the outer leaves of cabbages and cauliflowers. 

 There is no fear of a horse that is fed on highly 

 concentrated dry food taking any harm for occa- 

 sional *' relishes'' of green food such as have 

 been indicated. 



A little rock salt should always be kept in 

 the manger. Horses are very fond of it and it is 

 of great benefit to them. I know one large horse 

 owner who gives every horse on the place a couple 

 of handfuls of Cattle Salts (Epsom) in their mash 

 every Saturday night. He says they are much 

 benefited by it and I know that he rarely has a 

 sick horse. 



There is one thing in connexion with the 

 feeding of horses which is of the greatest import- 

 ance both to the horses and to the pocket of their 

 owner ; but it is difficult to get a groom to see it. 

 It is that the individual character and constitu- 



