I. NORFOLK:. 4^ 



At Michaelmas, the mafler fets apart what he 

 confiders as a fufficient quantity to lad to thci 

 clofe of barley leecl-time. This allowance he 

 configns wholly to the care of his men; w^ho 

 never fail to hufband it in fuch a manner as to 

 have the neceffary refer ve at barley feel ; whereas 

 before he fell upon this regulation, his horfes 

 were either worked down to il^eletons, or he was 

 obliged to buy hay for them at that feafon. 



With refpetfl: to corn, a bulhel each horfe, a 

 week', is, in the bufieft feafon, confidered as 

 an ample allowance ; in more leifure-times a 

 much lefs quantity fuilices. 



Oats are the ufiuil horfe-corn-, but barley^ 

 when cheap or unfaleable, is fomctimes o-iven 

 to horfes. In this cafe, it is, generally "w^/Z^^y* 

 that isj fteepcd, and afterwards fpread 

 abroad, for a few days, until it begin to vege- 

 tate ; and, in this crifis, is given to the horfes. 

 It is thought to be lefs heating, in this ftate, 

 than it is when given to the horfes in its natural 

 ftate. 



Chaff is univerfally mixed with horfe-corn t 

 the great quantities of corn grown in this coun- 

 try afford, in general, a fufficiency of Tiatural 

 chaff; fo that cut chaff is not much in life : 



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