QUALITY AND QUANTITY. 113 



US see what different descriptions of forao-e we 

 shall want, and then say something of its qualities. 

 I believe if I mention — we will say for hunters — 

 hay, chaff, straw, oats, beans, malt, bran, carrots, 

 lintseed, and, at particular seasons, a very trifling, 

 addition of clover or lucerne, and oatmeal, we 

 shall have all that can be called into use for horses 

 in health. Barley, however, I have found occa- 

 sional use for with horses of particular constitu- 

 tions. We will first speak of 



Hay. 



This should, for all and every horse, always be 

 of the very best quality. 



Of all the other causes put together that oc- 

 casion thick and broken wind, where one horse 

 gets into that state from any of them, or the 

 whole combined, nineteen become so from the 

 effects of bad hay, but supposing it to be good, 

 the proper or improper quantities given are all but 

 life or death to the horse ; in fact, eventually they 

 are so. The effect of oats being light, thick- 

 skinned, or taily, provided they are perfectly sweet, 

 may be frustrated by increased quantity ; but if 

 hay is not nutritious, being, as it is, of much 

 greater bulk, increased quantity is merely fillino' 

 the animal with what does him no good in quality, 

 but a great deal of mischief in quantity. 

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