808 LADIES ON HORSEBACK. 



Sir, — The letters of your correspondent, Mrs. 

 Power O'Donoghue, are very instructive and 

 trustworthy, because founded upon practical 

 experience. In her letter of last week she 

 recommends the feeding of hunters upon 

 cooked food. This to many sportsmen will be 

 a new theory ; not so to me, and I wish to 

 confirm her views, but I carry them out in a 

 more economical way. My establishment is 

 but a small one. I cannot afford space or 

 attendance for a cooking-house, but I beheve 

 I arrive at the same results as she does, by 

 steeping my oats in cold water for a given 

 number of hours, and adding a pound of 

 Indian meal, with a handful of chopped hay 

 and oaten straw to each feed three times a 

 day. My horses have a constant supply of 

 water in a manger in a convenient corner of 

 their stables. I believe horses fed upon dry 

 oats and hay suffer much from thirst. I 

 observe my horses take many sups of water 

 through the day, but take much less on the 

 whole than when watered upon the old practice 

 twice daily. Practically, I find my horses 

 very healthy, strong, and endming, and I 



