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the stable or a shed, to protect them from the sun and flies; 

 they can be turned out late in the afternoon or evening 

 for the night, and brought to the shelter by 9 or 10 o'clock 

 next morning. Horses on late or second crop-grass and 

 clover of the season will not thrive well, as the cool nights 

 acidulate the juices and cause slobbering (salivation) 

 from the mouth and salivary glands ; this is a loss to the 

 stomach in digestion and assimilation. 



Timothy hay, we believe, for the last forty years has 

 been in extensive use for feeding city horses, and by com- 

 mon consent it is considered to be the best of all the dried 

 grasses. So firmly fixed is this opinion of horsemen on 

 the subject, that it would be a matter of supererogation, 

 were we to attempt to convince them otherwise. Cats-tail 

 or timothy grass — Phleum pratense, is the great American 

 grass, and is called' Timothy from a Mr. Timothy Hanson, 

 who was the first to introduce it, and no doubt it is one 

 of the most valuable grasses of the country. There are 

 several varieties of timothy which we will not describe, 

 but suffice to say, that the timothy of Pennsylvania is the 

 Herd^s grass of New England, and the Red-Top of the 

 Middle States, a variety which the farmers of Pennsylvania 

 will not grow ] they reject all seeds containing Herd's grass. 

 The value of timothy hay depends a great deal upon its 

 quality, not only in its being well and properly cured, but 

 upon the soil upon which it has been grown. Timothy 

 grass requires for its full and perfect growth a heavy clay 

 soil ; without this the product will be poor, both in quality 



