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ECONOMY OF FOOD. 



The method of economising food consists in 

 using a variety of grain instead of one kind, and 

 that exclusively oats. Some have tried the 

 different leguminous kinds also separately, but 

 found them inefficient in economy, and even 

 injurious. 



A farmer of my acquaintance having about 

 thirty horses, purchased, at a cheap rate, a 

 quantity of Indian corn, under the idea that it 

 would effect a saving in the cost of feeding. 

 On the contrary, the health and condition were 

 greatly sacrificed. 



Others, again, give a preponderance of beans, 

 acting upon the well known fact that, being more 

 nutritive than oats, they must be more economical. 

 In the mode adopted, however, they have proved 

 highly expensive as well as injurious. 



Linseed is also added, and with pernicious 

 results. It is too laxative for general use in 

 quantity, but judiciously administered proves 

 assimilative, hastens the process of assimilation, 

 and assists in the formation of fat and flesh. As 

 a nutritious body it is very highly expensive. 



Tares, which are the most nutritious diet we 

 can use for horses, are objectionable as being 

 unpalatable in quantity. Similar objections may 

 be urged against other varieties of food when 

 exclusively used, particularly in their liability to 

 produce disorder of the digestive organs. 



