Feeds for the Horse. 2T5 



At the North Carolina Station^ Burkett found tankage and dried 

 blood useful for run-down and thin horses. Lindsey- states that 

 from 0.5 to 1 lb. of blood meal daily will prove a helpful addition to 

 the ration of hard-worked horses. (306) 



Clark of the Utah Station^ found that farm horses will eat as 

 much as 20 lbs. of wet beet pulp daily without injury, and that when 

 combined with oats and alfalfa 9 lbs. of well-fermented wet beet 

 pulp is equal to 1.5 lbs. of oats. (309) 



Rusche* states that peanut meal and malt sprouts may be used in 

 place of oats for feeding foals. (176, 202) 



The French War Department^ found that cocoanut meal was equal 

 to the same weight of oats for maintaining army horses. (204) 



Nordendahr* reports the successful feeding of Swedish army 

 horses on bread made of ground oats and skim milk, 1 lb. of bread 

 equaling 2 lbs. of oats. 



II. Roughages for the Horse. 



428. Necessity for roughage.— Patterson of the Maryland Sta- 

 tion' attempted to feed 2 horses on oats alone, offering from 13 to 15 

 lbs. to each daily. By the end of the fourth day one of the horses 

 refused the oats entirely and drank but little water. On the seventh 

 day the other horse w^ould eat only a part of the grain, and by the 

 tenth day none w^hatever. Evidently the horse cannot live upon 

 concentrates alone, even oats wdth their straws-like hulls. (118) 



42&. Timothy hay. — Altho not particularly rich in digestible nu- 

 trients, timothy hay is the standard roughage for the horse thruout 

 almost the whole of the northeastern United States. The freedom 

 from dust of good timothy hay commends it as a horse feed, and it 

 is an excellent roughage for those horses whose sustenance comes 

 mostly from concentrates. A reasonable allowance of this hay is 1 

 lb. daily per 100 lbs. of animal, given mostly at night. So far as 

 possible the other roughages here considered will be compared with 

 timothy hay as the standard. (224) 



430. Cereal hay.— On the Pacific Coast, especially in California, 

 the cereal hays — barley, the wild oat, wheat, etc. — are extensively 

 employed as roughages for horses. The excellence of the speed horse 

 and the endurance of the work horse of the Coast region attest the 



' Bui. 189. -- Mileh. Zeit., 1883, p. 517. 



= Mass. Bui. 99. « Expt. Sta. Rec, 8, p. 152. 



'Bui. 101. . 'Bui. 51. 

 * Jahrsb. Agr. Chem., 1889, p. 621. 



