THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



In winter we deduct one-third of the oats 

 at night and replace with corn. Saturday 

 night is mash. If a horse is having four 

 quarts of oats, it gets the same of mash, com- 

 posed of two quarts of ground feed (corn 

 and oats ground together), two quarts of 

 bran, half a pint of linseed meal, all mixed, 

 and moistened with boiling water early in the 

 afternoon, closely covered, and fed just warm. 



Soy bean and Canada pea hay are fed as a 

 third of the hay ration three times a week. In 

 the summer bran alone is used for the mash, 

 and some freshly cut grass is fed every night. 

 The work horses are allowed half an hour's 

 loafing time in the paddock, when unharnessed 

 at night, to roll, and generally relax, before 

 being brushed off, legs and face washed, and 

 turned in to supper. 



How and when to water horses is a subject 

 of much dispute. Some say twenty minutes 

 before eating, some twenty after. And the 

 quantity is as widely questioned. Our stables 

 have stationary drinking troughs, which are 



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