96 Other Forms of Admixture. 



Tea horses would receive 85 Ibs. per week, at 

 a cost of 6s. 8Jo?. each, yielding 21 Ibs. N.M. 



Nine horses would receive 95 Ibs., at a cost of 

 7s. o^d., yielding 24 Ibs. N.M. 



Eight horses would receive 107 Ibs., at a cost 

 of 8s. 4Jrf., yielding 27 Ibs. N.M.* 



It remains only to be added that by a careful 

 estimate of the prices of grain and leguminous 

 seeds, together with the relative amounts of 

 nutritious matter contained in each, it is possible 

 to vary the mixture in such manner as the fore- 

 going, that, notwithstanding the excessive fluc- 

 tuations of markets, the cost of each animal per 

 week for corn will not vary throughout the 

 entire year more than a few pence. 



The bulk will, however, be somewhat less, 

 and requires to be made up by the use of hay, 

 or hay and straw chaff. 



As these mixtures are designed for hard- 

 working animals only, it will be almost un- 

 necessary after what has been said when speak- 

 ing of animal heat, &c., to state that such food 

 will prove pre-eminently injurious to idle animals, 

 except given in very small quantities. To those 

 doing no work or light exercise, oats are decidedly 

 the safest article of diet. 



* In feeding horses upon oats only, weighing 38 Ibs. per 

 bushel, costing 24s. per quarter, each must consume 5 bushels 

 weekly, at a cost of 15s., in order to derive the same nutrition as 

 htTe afforded by a mixture of 27 Ibs. per day, at a cost of 8s. 4gC?. 

 per week. 



