FEEDING HORSES. 



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light work, it becomes a matter of great importance that 

 horse owners should study the best use of this food, and 

 how to combine it with other foods. As we have often said, 

 Indian corn is deficient in muscle-sustaining food, and the 

 skill of the feeder consists in combining this with other 

 grains or feeding stuffs that are rich in the elements in 

 which corn is deficient. We can better point out these 

 combinations after giving a table of the analyses of the dif- 

 ferent grains and by-products used in different parts of the 

 country as food for horses, to which we add the different 

 grasses used as hay, and some straw. 



