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wurtzel, after its sweat. Peas or oats unthreshed, 

 cut fresh from the stack, as hay, are an excellent and 

 highly nutritious food for horses of all denominations, 

 particularly for brood mares giving suck. Horses 

 naturally hard-carcassed, and too slow in their di- 

 gestion, are much benefited and relieved by these 

 changes of diet, for which our fertile soil affords such 

 ample resources. In some cases of this kind, the 

 substitution of fine fragrant rowen, or cow-hay, during 

 a week or two, for the common hard hay of the stable, 

 will have a plainly perceptible and salutary effect. 

 I have occasionally used sweet sliced turnips in this 

 case, which are cooling and diuretic. 



Slow draught horses, from their bulk, coarse- 

 ness, and the nature of their labour, which is restricted 

 to forceful not speedy exertion, require a dietetic regi- 

 men of a different kind from that necessary to saddle 

 horses, although the regimen of dressing and stable 

 attendance is, in degree, common to both, and to all. 

 The cart horse requires to be sufficiently well filled 

 with hay, more especially, by being amply racked up 

 with it by night, perhaps his most leisurely and best 

 feeding time. Supposing them good of their kind, 

 the coarser kinds of hay, clover, sainfoin, tare, lucerne, 

 and melilot, agree perfectly well with this species of 

 the horse. Their feeds of corn, or corn and beans, 

 are usually and properly mixed with cut chaff, or as 

 they phrase it, in Hants and Berks, hulls ; bran or 

 coarse pollard are also used with the corn and beans. 

 I fed my cart horses, which, on a certain occasion, 

 were put to the severest labour that can be endured 

 by the draught horse, with beans and chaff, during 



