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them. Even carriage horses, which are used every day, if 

 they are not driven too fast, are much better for a 

 little green food once a day, as it keeps the body in such 

 splendid condition. Properly speaking, during the summer 

 months, green stuff is the natural food for horses. Take 

 farmers' horses for instance, as soon as May comes in they 

 live almost entirely on green food, especially in some parts 

 of the country, yet they have to work very hard. 



If they are allowed their corn just the same as when 

 they had hay and straw cut up especially if they have just a 

 little chaff mixed with the corn, farmers' horses become 

 very fat while being fed on the green stuff, no matter 

 whether it is tares, clover or grass. Their skin usually 

 becomes as fine as a piece of silk, and the animals require 

 no medicine at all during that time While the horses are 

 being fed in this way they should not be allowed to run 

 very fast, if so, it is liable to injure their wind. Many 

 people say they perspire very freely when they are fed upon 

 green stuff. That is quite right, because when they are fed 

 in this way the weather is usually hot, at the same time the 

 green stuff may make a difference in this respect. When 

 they do perspire it does not hurt them, it opens the pores 

 of the skin, and in almost every case farmers' horses will 

 put on flesh during the time they are fed on the greenmeat, 

 and still do their usual work. In fact very often they do 

 more. 



Feeding Nag Horses. 



Horses, like everything else, are very differently 

 situated. Some horses, when they are allowed green stuff 



