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weighing as heavy as the refuse of European oat-clearings, 

 and feed them to horses, and then expect a full day's work 

 from an insufficient feed. 



For horse feed, Indian corn possesses all the elements of 

 warmth and nutrition, and is well calculated to supply the 

 wear and tear of the system of the hardest worked horse, 

 and keep him in a healthy condition, without any assistance 

 from oats ; but the usual addition of hay should be allowed 

 to horses, whatever be the feed that is in use. We have 

 thus shown, not only by chemical analysis, but by the 

 teachings of experience, that corn* contains nearly all the 

 elements of animal nutrition, and it therefore only remains 

 for us to suggest a plan whereby corn can be fed, not only 

 profitably to the owner, but with the best results to the 

 horse. Before we attempt this, it may be necessary, how- 

 ever, to state that ten pounds of sound timothy hay are 

 equal, in point of nutrition as food for horses, to five 

 pounds of oats, and ten pounds of clover hay are equal to 

 about four of oats. Thus it will be seen, that to adopt the 

 corn as a feed, and reject the oat, no injury can arise from 

 the change as long as sufficient hay is allowed. Hay being 

 the great auxiliary to oats, we do not see why its good 

 offices should not be exercised with the same potential 



* Since the MS. was placed in the hands of the publishers, the 

 half-yearly report for July, 1869, of the "London General Omni- 

 bus Company," shows a saving of $70,000 as the result of feeding 

 Indian corn instead of oats to their horses. 

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