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parts of mucilage, or starch, and 103 parts of gluten. If dry peas 

 be fed, he obtains from 1,000 parts, 574 parts of nutritive matter, 

 501 parts of mucilage, or starch, 22 parts of saccharine matter, or 

 sugar, and 35 parts of gluten. From 1,000 parts of linseed cake, 

 151 parts of nutritive matter, 123 of starch, 11 of saccharine mat- 

 ter, and 17 of gluten. From 1,000 parts of red beet, 148 parts of 

 nutritive matter, 14 mucilage, or starch, 121 saccharine matter, and 

 14 of gluten. In 1,000 parts of parsnips, cabbage, Swedish tur- 

 neps, common turneps, red clover, white clover or lucerne, the quan- 

 tity of nutritious matter is very far lessj but from 1,000 parts of 

 oats, he obtains 743 parts of soluble nutritive matter, 41 of starch 

 or mucilage, 15 of saccharine matter or sugar, and 87 parts of glu- 

 ten, or albumen, showing that oats, as food, are far more valuable 

 than the root crops. Therefore, my practice has been, to keep my 

 horses according to the labor I have for them to perform. When 

 idle, they are led upon green corn-stalks, green grass, carrots, pota- 

 toes, bran, or fresh, unfermented apple pomace, all of which they 

 will partake of, as a change, with apparent satisfaction. When they 

 are. compelled to labor hard, they are fed the best cut hay, and 12 

 quarts of oats each per day; being taken from the green succulent 

 food, their oats are a great treat to them, and I believe do them in- 

 finitely more good than if they had been fed constantly upon them. 

 I have sometimes fed my horses cut straw and boiled potatoes, but 

 found, without oats, they could not, on such food, do a day's work, 

 but constantly, although allowed as much as requisite, fell off in 

 condition; still, Messrs. Vancouver and Author Young, of Essex, 

 England, affirm that horses have been kept throughout the winter 

 entirely on steamed potatoes, to every 300 lbs. of which was added 

 half a pint of salt, and a little sulphur; and that, fed in this man- 

 ner, they performed wuth the greatest ease, all the common labor of 

 the farm, without Either hay or oats. If such is the case in the 

 mild climate of England, it has not been my good fortune to find 

 that it would succeed in our climate. I have found by frequent ex- 

 periment, that carrot may be fed very advantageously to working 

 horses, so much so, that a horse will gain rapidly, if fed tw^ice a day 

 with oats, say four quarts at each meal, and an equivalent to six 

 quarts of carrots. The saving in one month, of oats, by this mode 

 of feeding, is considerable. Horses fed on carrots alone, will con- 

 sume thirty bushels in one week; when so fed, the tops should be 

 cut off and given to cows; they are tender, and very delicate. 

 Cows are extravagantly fond of them, and will eat them in prefe- 

 rence to any other food. An acre, well cultivated, will grow 1,000 



