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ascertained what portion of corn they can be got 

 to eat during the day, and to observe that, what- 

 ever portion of corn may be given in each feed, 

 each horse eats up all that is given him. Any 

 horse that may not have eaten the whole of his 

 corn, should have that which he has left imme- 

 diately taken away, and his hay given him. The 

 means whereby the horse is again to be brought 

 to his appetite, we shall bye-and-bye describe, 

 when we are on the subject of doing a little bit 

 of work with such horses. 



The hearty horses are those that have often 

 been noticed as being in the medium as regards 

 their constitutions; these are moderate good 

 feeders, will eat from a peck to a peck and a 

 half of corn in the course of the day, and some 

 few of them will now and then exceed this quan- 

 tity. Strong constitutioned, hearty-feeding horses 

 will eat, by measure, in the course of the day, 

 from a peck and a half to two pecks; and I have 

 known some very gluttonous horses that would 

 now and then exceed this quantity. Now, if we 

 speak of the feeding by weight, and suppose the 

 oats to weigh, w^hich they should at least, forty 

 pounds per bushel, the above horses would eat a 

 stone and a half, or perhaps rather more, during 



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