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lasses is an excellent and very fattening food in itself, 

 and the writer knew a pair of nearly toothless old 

 horses which, for years, lived upon twelve quarts of 

 molasses per day, and what juice they extracted from 

 the hay and grass which they could mumble and 

 crush, but could not chew. 



Stale bread (cake, etc.) may be bought of 

 the bakeries at about fifty cents a sugar (not flour) 

 barrel, broken up with a sharp spade or axe, and 

 fed dry, or moistened, or sprinkled with sweetened 

 water, or with a few chopped carrots, apples, turnips, 

 beets, etc. Where this can be obtained in quantity 

 it is wonderfully satisfactory and very cheap. 



Whole corn on the ear (and cracked corn) should 

 be, of course, winter foods, if used; but the ear 

 corn is especially tempting to Western horses, and 

 they will eat it gladly when all else is refused. 



Linseed meal is nearly valueless, as modern proc- 

 esses extract all the oil. The whole flaxseed is most 

 valuable, and should be regularly used in mashes, 

 etc. Its jelly (made as described) is capital for pro- 

 ducing a shining smooth coat, for regulating the 



