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used. Barley should not be employed until it is a year 

 old. 



A mixture of parched barley and gram, known as 

 ardawa, is commonly sold in India. It is usually 

 made of inferior grain, and is always more or less 

 adulterated with dirt and chaff. 



Indian Corn. This grain, known as mukaee, is 

 very cheap and plentiful in some parts, the Punjab, for 

 instance. In Europe and America, maize is usually 

 regarded as a food that, without the addition of other 

 grain, is not sufficient for the requirements of hard- 

 working horses. The results of experiments conducted 

 on a large scale in France and Austria, as well as 

 observations made by practical men in other countries, 

 prove that, although horses readily take to maize as a 

 food, digest it, and, on it, get fat and acquire glossy 

 coats, they show a marked deficiency in vigour, speed 

 and stamina, to animals fed on oats. Professor Bruch- 

 miiller, who conducted a six months' trial of feeding 

 5,200 horses partly on maize, came to the conclusion 

 that it can be used to advantage only with horses that 

 are not required to move out of a walk. 



Hiram Woodruff, the celebrated American trainer, 

 thus writes : " The grain should be oats of good qua- 

 lity. I do not let colts have corn at all when young ; 

 and even to old horses I think it should be fed very 



sparingly Above all, avoid Indian corn in all 



shapes for young colts Keep the corn for the 



bullocks and hogs, and give oats to the horses." 



The experience, however, of horse owners in South 

 Africa where Indian corn and oat-hay form the staple 

 food for horses places the food-value of this grain in 



