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is much diiference between peat-moss and straw. 

 From the place where I am writing this, I should 

 say peat-moss was, owing to the railway charges, 

 the more expensive of the two. Lastly, horses 

 will not eat peat-moss, and I find many horses, 

 especially recently imported Irish horses, are very 

 fond of straw, and prefer it to hay sometimes. 

 This must be qualified by the assertion of some 

 people that horses will eat peat-moss litter, but I 

 have not found mine to do so. 



Straw is clean, looks well, and is fairly easy to 

 buy, and I think, perhaps, hunters rest on it better 

 after a hard day, but I am not quite sure of this. 

 If straw is used, I always have two beds, one for 

 night and one for the day, but I found a difficulty 

 in making grooms pick it over carefully enough. 

 As manure, whether for the garden or farm, I 

 greatly prefer it to peat-moss. In any case, I 

 think peat-moss is the best for a small stable. Yet 

 I confess that if money was no object I should 

 prefer to use nothing but straw. The stable 

 unquestionably looks so much better with straw 

 beds and neatly plaited borders. 



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