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well for horses which are kept daily at work which 

 calls for large expenditures of energy, if the roughage 

 is not also rich in carbohydrates. Bran may also be 

 used but to a limited extent; for it is not sufficiently 

 concentrated to furnish nutrients to satisfactorily sustain 

 either driving- or work-horses when put to fatiguing 

 work. If fed liberally, it tends to keep the bowels too 

 lax. When scalded it is not infrequently fed to relieve 

 constipation in horses. About four quarts of bran may 

 be thoroughly moistened with boiling water, covered 

 up, and left until the next feeding time, when it 

 should be diluted and fed warm. A gill of linseed 

 meal per day, mixed with other concentrates, serves 

 to keep the bowels in good condition, and to brighten 

 and soften the hair. Barley and rye are also used as 

 concentrates to a limited extent. Both are much im- 

 proved if ground and mixed with other concentrates. 

 Wheat is sometimes used for feeding horses, but it is 

 the least satisfactory of all the foods mentioned. 

 Before it is fed, it should be mixed with other grains 

 and ground into meal. Cottonseed meal, a valuable 

 concentrate for feeding cattle and sheep, is not relished 

 by horses. 



In closing this discussion on feeds and feeding, it 

 may be said that regularity in feeding and watering, 

 judgment in withholding a part of, or adding to the 

 ration, and in the kinds of food to be used under any 

 particular condition, all play important parts. With 

 mows and bins full of good foods, 'some horsemen are 

 unable to keep their horses up to a high state of 

 efficiency. They appear to acquire the habit of caring 



