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fplit; but for the very old, or the very young, 

 they were, and that the harder the beans the 

 better. The quantity of beans given with 

 the faintfoin and ftraw appeared very fcanty 

 to me ; but the coachman allured me they were 

 fully fufficient, 



lam now convinced that ground corn is not 

 proper to be given to working horfes. If a 

 horfe (lands in the ftable, he will fatten on 

 bran, which will not fupport him if he has 

 common exercife,ashis carcafe will foon mow. 

 A horfe will fatten fooner at grafs in a good 

 pafture, than in a ftable on the beft of corn; 

 but in the latter he acquires a firm hard flefh 

 which will bear work ; and in the former only 

 a wafhey foft flefh, which diminifhes with tri- 

 fling exercife. In fhort, a horfe that {lands in 

 the ftable to be made up, will fatten with al- 

 moft any thing, I have tried carrots, pota- 

 toes, bran-pafte, &c. but the great defidera- 

 tum is to keep working horfes well and cheap; 

 and, in thirty years* experience, I never yet 

 have found any thing equal to chopped ftraw 

 with com* 



I have tried beans in the draw; and excel- 

 lent food they yield after Candlemas. Peas 



are 



