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given to the horses of one of the principal lines in Phila- 

 delphia is corn-meal fifteen pounds, cut hay suflEicient to 

 give bulk to the mess, a little salt, and water enough' to 

 merely moisten the mixture. This quantity is divided into 

 three feeds, one given in the morning, the others at noon 

 and night. Some horses do not eat so much ; but this is 

 the average quantity that a horse will eat during the 

 twenty-four hours, when travelling twenty-four miles daily 

 and attached to street cars. The mode of feeding car 

 horses, is referred to by us as being the best adapted to 

 horses travelling at the rate of from six to eight miles in 

 the hour. For horses of faster work, one such feed should 

 be allowed, and that in the evening after all work is done, 

 for the day and night. Some horses of poor appetite are 

 in addition allowed a sprinkling of bran over the mixture, 

 to whet their appetite and induce them to eat their feed. We 

 do not think that any class of horses for any kind of work 

 can be fed more cheaply th^n on the feed of car horses, and 

 with the same condition and flesh maintained. Chemists 

 may tell us that maize or Indian corn produces caloric or 

 heat in the body, and that oats are wanted to produce mus- 

 cle, which we have here without the aid of oats, wheat, or 

 barley. 



The farm stable must be accepted as a building of 

 many devices, shapes and appearances, situated often in 

 places badly adapted for it, and often not at all suited for 

 the safe keeping of horses. The means of the farmer have 

 in most instances been the only consideration, when it 



