170 Horses on Board Ship. 



other Continental scientific men have amply 

 proved. 



Some people have the mistaken idea that 

 dry bran should always be damped by 

 sprinkling it with water, before giving it to a 

 horse ; because its floating particles, so they 

 say, will go up his nostrils and injuriously 

 affect his organs of breathing. I have never 

 found a single case of this to occur with the 

 many thousands of feeds of dry bran which I 

 have seen given to horses in feeding troughs 

 and ordinary mangers ; although the presence 

 of dry bran in a nose-bag might make an 

 animal sneeze. A valid objection to the 

 wetting of bran, as I have already indicated, 

 is that the damper it is, the less will the horse 

 chew it, and the less saliva will he secrete to 

 mix with it. 



