74 Systems adopted on various Colliery Estates. 



Suppose these animals had been fed exclusively 

 upon oats and hay, they would require to con- 

 sume weekly four-and-a-half bushels of the 

 former, and about ten stones of the latter, in 

 order to receive the same amount of nutrition, 

 viz. 31 \ pounds derived from the mixture 

 quoted, and which would cost at the same prices 

 about eighteen shillings and sixpence. 



Here is also a decided saving of three shillings 

 and sixpence per horse per week, by the use of 

 the mixture, which only costs fifteen shillings, and 

 with fifty horses would realize & 15s., and for a 

 year 455, besides almost an immunity from 

 disease and death, to which they were before 

 exposed. 



SYSTEMS ADOPTED ON VARIOUS COLLIERY 

 ESTATES. 



It is by paying particular attention to these 

 matters that so much has been effected in the 

 saving over former expenditure, on many colliery 

 establishments, where the supply and mixing of 

 grain is under the management of the veterinary 

 surgeon. 



Mr. Hunting, in his pamphlet already referred 

 to, has shown that with the number of horses and 

 ponies employed at the various collieries of the 

 South Hetton Coal Company all doing the 

 hardest work the saving effected in ten years 

 amounted to no less than the enormous sum of 



