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CHAPTER XVII. 



Extra forage. — Beans. — Price of beans. — Quantity and effects 

 of beans. — Peas. — Price of peas. — Maize. — Use of maize. 

 — Price of maize. — Linseed. — Linseed-mashes. — Merits of 

 linseed mashes. — Linseed-oil. — Cooked foods. — Advan- 

 tages of cooked foods. — Effects of cooked foods. — Prepara- 

 tion of cooked foods. — Green forage. — Quantity of green 

 forage to be given. — Lucerne. — Carrots. — Price of carrots. 

 — Quantity of food required for a horse. — Daily scale of 

 food. — Cost of horse-keep. — Annual cost of horse-keep. — 

 Feeding horses. — Chaff. — Indigestion. — Hay and straw 

 for chaff. — Feeding-hours. — Feeding with hay. — Watering. 

 — Food and work. — Bad feeders. — Instinct. — Coaxing 

 delicate feeders. — Mice in stable. — Eock-salt. — Bran- 

 mashes. — How to make bran-mashes.— Bran-poultices. — 

 Linseed-poultices. — How to make linseed-poultices. — 

 Gruel. — How to make gruel.— Ale for tired horse. — An 

 English sportsman. 



Under the head of what we have decided to call 

 ' extra forage ' may be reckoned the following — 

 viz., beans, peas, maize, linseed, oatmeal. 



Beans, as given for food for horses, should never 

 be less than a year old. They are generally used 

 for the purpose crushed, and it is therefore very 

 easy to ascertain their condition ; suffice it to say 



