TRAINING, AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 95 



strongly advise the use of maize for draught, coaching, 

 and 'bus work, but the maize must always be freshly 

 crushed, but not to a meal, and free from maggots 

 and mildew. 



In large establishments the mixing of the food 

 should be done under special supervision of the 

 manager, and the following mixture of grain, chaff, 

 and bran I found most suitable for general purposes 

 in Australia, and I don't see why it should not answer 

 equally as well here. Certainly our chaff is much 

 more nutritive than the chaff in this country made 

 from meadow and clover hay, our hay there, being 

 oats cut green, and hayed in the usual manner. Of 

 course there is a lot of partly formed and nutritive 

 grain in this. Many well packed 8-bushel bran bags 

 will contain fcwt. of chaff, so this is really fair feeding 

 in itself I used, to mix this with weight for weight 

 of grain (it did not matter what sort), and such a 

 proportion of bran as to give every horse about lilbs. 

 per day. Of this mixture each horse would have four 

 buckets ; each bucket weighing gibs. I never had 

 less than 200 horses in the stable for three years, and 

 all were in good condition, and any day, if required, 

 could do two days' work in one. I used the same 

 feeding when I had 300 to 400 coaching horses to 

 feed. I believe firmly in crushed grain of all sorts, but 

 it must be clean and fresh, free from dirt, foreign 

 substances, and mildew. Crushed grain is economical 



