56 Objections to the Use of Dry Food. 



in the consumption of food, and visit him at any 

 hour of the night, he will he found having an 

 appetite, and like Oliver Twist " looking for 

 more." 



Rapidity of digestion is a provision established 

 by nature. If the stomach had been from the 

 first intended to receive the large quantities fre- 

 quently placed before horses, or to perform func- 

 tions assigned to the teeth and salivary glands in 

 addition to its own, the logical inference is that, 

 as nature, in her development of all things, has 

 not studied ornament merely, the stomach would 

 have been endowed with greater capacity and 

 powers, and teeth and salivary glands in all 

 probability absent entirely. 



It is also urged against the dry meat or manger 

 system, that horses fail to masticate or grind the 

 whole of their corn, that much in a state capable 

 of germination or growth passes out in the 

 excrement, and, of course, the cooked meat system 

 supplies this deficiency. 



During a season of extreme scarcity in India, 

 it has been stated,* the famine-hunted wretches 

 followed the English camp, and drew their princi- 

 pal nourishment from the grains of corn extracted 

 from the excrement of horses. 



I well remember an extensive firm employing 

 many horses, whose manure was objected to by 



* Letter from an Indian officer to J. Curwen, M.P., quoted in 

 Blaine's (fifth) edition of "The Veterinary Art." 



