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31,876 2s. 7Jd. by cutting the hay into chaff and 

 mixing with small quantities of straw, and sub- 

 stituting superior kinds of beans, peas, barley, 

 tares, &c., in lieu of oats. He also states that 

 out of 225 horses employed in two pits, during 

 six weeks between 15th December, 1850, and 

 24th January, 1851, when the old system was 

 pursued, there died of colic and its consequences 

 three horses and ponies ; while with the same 

 number of animals under the improved regime 

 during seven years, there were less than three 

 cases per annum. 



CUT FOOD AS AN AGENT IN PROMOTING 

 PROPER INSALIVATION. 



The value of this kind of provender as an 

 agent in causing a proper insalivation of food is 

 undoubted. On this subject Mr. Hunting is as 

 explicit as he is full of information regarding it. 

 He found that a number of animals, all selected 

 as near as possible with an average age, height, 

 and common appetite, required much longer 

 time to consume the same weight and measure of 

 food cut and mixed in the manger than when it 

 was given in the shape of long hay in the rack, 

 and oats only in the manger, from ten to 

 thirteen minutes more being required. 



After what has been said in reference to the 

 objects of the teeth and salivary glands and their 



