3i^4 LUCLRNE, 



corn given to the horses, except the first two weeks tliey 

 •were taken into the yard, when two pecks of oats, with 

 some chaff, were allowed each horse per week, to prevent 

 any ill consequences from the too sudden change from corn 

 and hay to green food, and they were fed entirely from 

 the aforesaid 4 acres i rood and 24 perches of lucerne, till 

 the 2lstofSeptemher following, making exadlly 19 weeks 

 from the period of their hrst going into the yard. lean- 

 not state with accuracy the quantity of work done during 

 the above 19 weeks by the ten horses, but, as near as 1 can 

 estimate, eight out of the ten went to plough or other 

 ■work, nine hours every day (Sundays excepted), and 

 ■were In excellent condition during this experiment. The 

 vard in which the horses were kept, and which they never 

 quitted except when at work, was littered with refuse 

 straw from other yards, green weeds from borders or 

 waste land, or any other refuse litter tliat could be con- 

 veniently procured. The dung was turned over after the 

 horses were taken from the yard, and after remaining 

 about a month In heaps, produced 62 loads, at 36 bushels 

 to the load. The grass had a slight top-diessing of peat- 

 ashes the first winter, and has received no msinuring since, 

 except a small part, which did no material good. The 

 first mowing commenced the nth May, when it was 

 fifteen inches high ; second mowing 6ih July ; third mow- 

 ing i8.h August. 



I was induced to adopt the above method of summer- 

 feeding horses, from the. Inconvenience I had previously 

 experienced, from having but a small quantity of pasture 

 land, and the consequent difficulty of preventing them 

 from breaking the fences, and getting into and damaging 

 the growing crops of corn. 



Calculation of xhe value of the 4 acres i rood and 

 24 perches of lucerne, above-mentioned : 



Keeping 



