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Peas contain even more nutrition than beans, 

 which they greatly resemble in general properties. 

 They are, however, less liable to produce dis- 

 order of the digestive organs, being much more 

 digestible. White or Canadian peas are usually 

 preferred, which weigh from 60 to 66 pounds per 

 bushel in a dry state, when they prove a very 

 substantial and economical feed given as directed 

 for beans. The maple or brown pea is also very 

 good feeding. 



Barley usually weighs when good about 56 

 pounds per bushel, contains 10 per cent, of nutrition, 

 and 68 of fatty matter. It forms a most useful 

 agent with other kinds of food, is highly diges- 

 tible, and promotes their digestibility and assimi- 

 lation. For sick and convalescent animals, a 

 small quantity of barley which has been boiled 

 sufficiently to swell and burst each grain, and de- 

 prived of its water, proves acceptable when the 

 digestive powers are weakened and prostrate. 



Tares or Lentils are not so commonly used as 

 the preceding. Their principal use appears to 

 be for producing a summer green crop, and 

 horse feeders with few exceptions know little of 

 them in other respects. They weigh from 65 to 

 70 pounds per bushel, contain as much as 33 per 

 cent, of nutrition, are very digestible, and prove 

 admirable agents for increasing the amount of 

 muscle-producing principle of a mixture of corn. 



They are, however, unpalatable, being bitter; 

 and on this account are not relished when given 



