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amount of corn as when he was in full work. Then again, 

 when a horse is working very hard it cannot very well 

 have too much to eat, at any rate, I never knew one that 

 was really working very hard eat too much. 



As regards the quantity, I repeat, that cannot be put 

 into print for a person to go by. I once had a little pony 

 twelve hands high, which would eat a truss of hay, a bushel 

 and a half of oats, and a bushel of bran in six days. The 

 oats weigh'ed 42 Ibs. to the bushel. I also had a cob 

 fourteen hands high. A truss of hay lasted him a trifle 

 over eight days, yet he was as fat and round as a mole and 

 always ready for work, proving the old saying true, " It is 

 not what is eaten, but what is digested." The cob, fourteen 

 hands high, always used to eat his slowly and masticate it 

 well, so that he used to get all the nutriment out of it 

 but the other's food did not do him so much good, he, 

 eating his quicker, and not masticating it so well. I give 

 this as an illustration of feeding horses. The cob, fourteen 

 hands high, had always been fed properly, and the pony had 

 fallen into the hands of one or two people who were bad 

 horse keepers before I had him. 



Now, there is a great deal in feeding horses, and giving 

 them as much as they will eat without wasting any. When 

 the person who attends to the horses sees any food at the 

 bottom of the manger, he should give less food the next 

 few days. Whenever the horse does not clear the manger 

 well out, give him less food each time, that is one of the 

 best tonics a horse can have. Of course there are times 

 when a tonic does a horse a great deal of good, and the 



