FEEDING. 85 



carriage or saddle-horse used for shopping or afternoon 

 rides or drives can be kept in excellent condition with six 

 pounds of corn meal, three pounds of cut hay, two quarts 

 of wheat bran, and a teaspoonful of salt, mixed with warm 

 water in winter and cold in summer, the water to be just 

 enough barely to moisten the mess and not make soft feed 

 or slop to disturb the bowels of the horse and unfit him 

 for exertion. 



The above-named mess is to be divided into three feeds, 

 for morning, noon, and evening. An addition of six to 

 eight pounds of hay must also be given in the rack. 

 These quantities, however, are merely proximate, for the 

 old horse and one of harder work will, to keep him in good 

 condition, require an addition, and young animals of less 

 work will not require so much. 



Draught and hard-worked horses should be fed more 

 generously, say fifteen to sixteen pounds of meal, with six 

 to eight pounds of cut hay, half a peck of bran, and an 

 extra allowance of hay in the rack at night. 



Some persons have the corn ground along with the cob. 

 To this there can be little objection — only it is a little diffi- 

 cult to know exactly by weight what amount of meal the 

 horse is getting, except the full weight of the corn is 

 allowed, and the ground cob in addition, which may with 

 people of calculation obviate the necessity of an allowance 

 of bran to each mess. New corn should be fed to horses 

 with the greatest care, especially to young horses whose 

 stomachs are as yet not fit to digest a full feed even of old 



