FEEDING OF ANIMALS. 



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given consisted almost exclusively of oats and maize, that of 

 the oats being reduced, but that of the maize in a greater 

 degree increased, in the later years, coincidently with the 

 reduction in the amount of beans. On the occasion of a 

 visit of one of us to M. Lavalard in 1887, it was suggested 

 to him that the supply of the highly nitrogenous leguminous 

 seeds might be mainly, if not exclusively, reserved for old or 

 overworked horses ; and he subsequently informed us that 

 he had found their use in such cases advantageous. 



In his annual report for 1886, published in 1887, M. 

 Lavalard gives, on the authority of Dr Fleming, Principal 

 Veterinary Surgeon of the army, a list of the average daily 

 rations of horses of tramway companies in the United King- Rations 

 dom, which are quoted in the following table from Dr Flem- {^^"* 

 ing's book. 1 We have also calculated the quantity of dry horses. 

 substance in the total food according to the supposed average 

 composition of each. 



There can be little doubt that the average weight of tram- 

 way horses in the United Kingdom is much less than that 

 of the omnibus horses of Paris, and it will be seen that the 

 quantity of total food, or total dry matter of food, given per 

 head per day is also considerably less ; though it is much 

 greater than in the case of the smaller Pelites Voitures horses 

 of Paris. 



TABLE 85. 



1 Also 2 lb. of " Marshlam "— (Mashlun— mixed corn ?). 



The details show that, at any rate at that date, the tram- 

 way horses in the United Kingdom received much more of 

 the highly nitrogenous leguminous corn, beans or peas, than 

 the Paris horses ; and, according to the figures, this was 



1 The Practical Horse- Keeper, by C. Fleming, LL.D., p. 88. 



