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should be fed at evening. Horses should not be 

 put to work directly after eating. A horse should 

 be watered frequently. Salt should be kept before 

 a horse in limited quantities at all times, but not 

 mixed with the feed. 



The following table of approximate weights of 

 various feeds may prove of interest : 



One quart Wheat, ground l.T 



weighs in Wheat, bran 0.5 



Feeds. pounds. Oats 1.0 



Corn 1.7 Oats, ground 0.7 



Corn meal 1.5 Rye 1.7 



Corn bran 0.5 Barley 1.5 



Corn and cob meal 1.4 Linseed meal ( O. P. ) 1.1 



Wheat 2.0 Linseed meal (N. P.) 0.9 



How to Feed and Water. 



In the feeding of horses remember that the 

 horse digests oats in the stomach and takes care 

 of water and hay in the large intestines. For this 

 reason the feeding and watering should be con- 

 ducted upon the following theoretical plan : Water 

 first, then hay, then oats. Mastication of the food 

 is absolutely necessary in horses that are to do 

 well and escape indigestion of any kind. Where 

 ground food is given it is taken into the stomach 

 without much mastication, hence it is not properly 

 mixed with saliva which is necessary for its sub- 

 sequent digestion. When oats are in process of 

 mastication, four times its bulk of saliva is se- 

 creted in the mouth and this is needed to digest 

 it. Where corn meal is fed, but a quarter of the 

 proper amount of saliva is secreted and so on with 

 the other ground foods. 



