394 FEEDING ANIMALS. 



straw and chaff. I begin in September, and continue 

 using them all winter and until late in the summer, or 

 nearly all the year round, beginning with smaller quantity, 

 about a peck, and then a half bushel, for the first week or 

 two, as too many of the young-growing mangel would 

 injure the horses. I believe pulped mangels, with chaff, 

 are the best, cheapest, and most healthy food horses can 

 eat. I always find my horses miss them when gone, late 

 in summer. Young store-horses, colts, etc., do well with 

 them." 



Farmers, who preserve green corn in silos, may produce 

 the same effect with ensilage, as Mr. Slater does with 

 pulped mangel. There is no doubt that the pulped mangel 

 have a very beneficial effect upon the digestive organs, 

 but we much doubt the propriety of feeding to working 

 horses as much as a bushel of pulped mangel. This 

 would be equal to 60 pounds of corn ensilage or green 

 corn, whilst 30 to 40 Ibs. would be quite sufficient. Clover 

 and the grasses ensilaged, could, properly, form one-half 

 to three-fourths of the ration for "norses with slow work, 

 for the clover and grass ensilage would contain the requisite 

 muscle-forming food for work. 



The table last given shows the variety of food given by 

 English farmers to their horses that oats form the 

 principal concentrated food of the ration, beans being fed 

 sparingly, probably because of greater cost. -Hay is fed 

 much less liberally there than by farmers in this country, 

 who, no doubt, feed too much Jiay and too little grain. It 

 will also be noted that English farmers, very generally 

 cut the hay and straw fed to horses, and, where this is 

 done, the ground feed is given with the chaffed hay and 

 straw. This, as we have before shown, is promotive of 

 easier and more complete digestion of the food and of the 

 health of the horse. 



