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than the consumption of one horse for a year, and 

 you must look about to see what other outhouses 

 you have that can be turned into hay stores. I have 

 often found that the coach house can be so used 

 with advantage, and a temporary building erected 

 for the carriage, provided you have only one or 

 at most two. At all events you should try and 

 have a year's supply for every horse in hand, which 

 for four horses would be about ten tons. 



This, of course, implies that you have to go into 

 the market, and, buying your stores and hay, cart 

 them and store them at once. 



But there are other ways for the man who has 

 a little ready money available. Look round the 

 neighbourhood where you live. You will see the 

 hay fields, note those that grow the best grasses. 

 Then if you see that a field is well saved, with 

 the grasses well in flower, and not seeding when 

 the stack is made, buy from the farmer the whole 

 or a part if you can. It is well to remember that 

 outsides are no use to the man who only keeps 

 horses, but that the farmer can use them profitably. 

 If you buy thus you may safely give it the same 

 year. I think hay well saved is in November 

 more nourishing and wholesome than hay eighteen 

 months old. It is probably a trifle cheaper and 

 it maybe goes a little further. 



Again, you may own or rent some land, and 

 make your own hay, and be not a buyer but a 

 seller after you have provided for your own needs. 



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