CHAPTEK III 



VARIETIES OF FOOD 



Oats — Gruel — Gram — Kill thee — Urud — Moong — Mote — Barley — 

 Indian corn — Wheat — Cakes — Bran — Linseed — Rice — Suttoo — 

 Goor — Carrots and other roots — Grass and hay — Straw and chaff 

 — Oat-hay and wheat-hay — Kurbee — Bamboo leaves — Lucerne — 

 Milk — Stowage of grain. 



Oats. — This grain, when grown in India, possesses a 

 far larger portion of husk to flour than that produced in 

 England ; hence its lower value as an article of food. As 

 the measure of the horse's appetite is by bulk rather than 

 by weight, the heavier the oat, the more valuable, as a 

 rule, does it become. Samples at 47 lbs., 42 lbs., and 

 32 lbs. to the bushel will respectively yield about three- 

 fourths, one-half, and one-third flour, which proportions 

 approximately give the nutritive values. Mr. Stewart 

 (" Stable Economy ") tersely describes sound English corn 

 as follows : — 



" Good oats are about one year old, plump, short, hard, 

 rattling when poured into the manger, sweet, clean, free 

 from chaff and dust, and weighing about 40 lbs. per 

 bushel." Although our Indian oats are far below this 

 standard, still they are much superior, as a food for horses, 

 to any other grain which we can procure in India. This 



