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this purpose, and an acre of it will go much farther than 

 of anything else. Clover and tares mown every day will 

 answer well in the same use. In want of these, give 

 natural grass ; but any of them are better, with plenty of 

 litter for dung, than turning the horses or oxen into the 

 field. Where the teams are well done, they get, in addition 

 to this green food, about a bushel of oats each weekly, 

 mixed with chaff for their nose-bags. 



The following is the report of a Hampshire farmer 

 in July : " Our summer vetches being now in excellent 

 condition for soiling, we give them to the horses \ our 

 horses always receive their green food in the stables, as we 

 are greatly opposed to the practice of turning them out 

 either in the fields or in open yards ; we find that working 

 farm horses, from being turned out, are subject to more 

 accidents, and also casualties, in regard to their health 

 and well-doing, besides the great loss of manure con- 

 sequent upon being out of the stable." 



Beasts that are soiled in stalls or yards have, through 

 all this season, plenty of food, supposing a proper suc- 

 cession of those crops which have been mentioned for 

 this use. 



Pulped Food. 



On feeding horses with pulped roots, Mr. Slater, of 

 Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, says : 



" I give all my cart horses a bushel per day of pulped 

 mangold, mixed with straw and corn chaff. I begin in 

 September, and continue using them all winter and until 

 late in the summer nearly, if not quite, all the year round ; 

 beginning, however, with smaller quantities, about a peck, 

 and then half a bushel, the first week or two, as too many 

 of the young growing mangold would not suit the stock. 

 I believe pulped mangolds, with chaff, are the best, 

 cheapest, and most healthy food horses can eat. I 

 always find my horses miss them when I have none, late 

 in the summer. I give them fresh ground every day. 

 Young store beasts, colts, &c., do well with them ; but I 

 do not think they could be used with any advantage with 

 a flock of sheep ; they are, however, useful for fattening 



