( *9$ ) 



I have tried experiments to keep horfes upon 

 grains, potatoes, ground corn, bran, malt- 

 combs, carrots, &c.j but never found any 

 thing fo cheap as chopped draw. During the 

 winter 1795 and 1796, I did not fufFer one of 

 the nine horfes I kept for the ufe of my brewery 

 to eat any hay whatever, I kept two faddle-hor- 

 fes, which at times were ridden hard, and were 

 never free from fair work. ( for I do not like 

 man or beaft to be idle) -, the principal part of 

 their food was likewife chopped ftraw, with a 

 regular quantity of corn. I fet apart for this 

 purpofe the produce of fix acres of wheat/co^, 

 or wheat draw lamed. I fet a man to thrafli 

 fome of the ftraw over again, by way of feeing 

 how much wheat would be confumed in the 

 flraw. He was two days on this bufinefs: but 

 the wheat he got out was worth no more than 

 the coft of three day's labour. I mud alfo ac- 

 knowledge that the wheat in this ftraw had a 

 great deal of the fuzzball or fmut, and for that 

 reafon was not thrafhed, but lajhed, left the flail 

 mould bruife the fuzzballs, and turn all the 

 wheat black. Wheat at the time was eight 

 {hillings per bumel. I therefore faved the 

 wheat-ftraw, and added fix acres of Tartarian 

 oats, which were remarkably long, fix feet up- 

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