30 THE HORSE : ITS KEEP AND MANAGEMENT. 



nose bag on. A table to stand could easily be made as I 

 have described. The legs should have a hinge on the top 

 and a hook on the opposite side, so that when the hook is 

 undone the table legs will fold underneath, and it can be 

 hung on somewhere under the cart or waggon when it is 

 not in use. 



Feeding Horses on the Farm. 



Some who read this little work may think, surely 

 farmers know how to feed their horses without being 

 obliged to read books. No doubt there are many farmers 

 who do know how to feed horses, but I am sorry to say 

 there are some who do not understand them, or in other 

 words, do not take the trouble over their horses in this 

 respect that they ought. Farmers' horses ought not to be 

 fed anyhow when they are worked hard at different 

 periods of the year, especially in the autumn. 



There is a great amount of good food wasted on the 

 farm through the carelessness of the horse keeper. Farmers 

 are the people who ought to use their horses well and keep 

 them in splendid condition, for two reasons. First, they 

 grow all the food the horses are fed upon, or at any rate the 

 greater part of it ; secondly, most farmers do a little 

 breeding in young horses, if not, they ought to do so, if 

 possible, then they usually have one or two for sale. The 

 better condition they are kept in, naturally the more money 

 they make. That is not all however, when a horse is kept 

 in prime condition it really eats less food. When horses 

 are poor, and what some people call half-starved, the food 



