CETJSHED OATS. 



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By careful management a horse, under the circumstances 

 described, may be kept upon very little comparatively speaking, 

 and at the same time be much improved in general condition. 

 The secret of freshening horses mainly depends upon their 

 having good food in small quantities at a' time. A horse of 

 fifteen or fifteen hands and a half high, not an inordinate 

 feeder, and whose labour is not severe, may be kept in a very 

 efficient state upon three quarterns of oats per day, with a 

 moderate allowance of hay in addition. 



Crushed Oats. — When horses feed greedily, and bolt their 

 corn without first masticating it, the best plan is to give the 

 oats in a crushed state. This 

 is done by means of a mill 

 similar to the one shewn in 

 the annexed engraving. Ex- 

 cellent mills for the purpose 

 here recommended may be 

 procured at a trifling cost 

 from Messrs. Kichmond and 

 Chandler, of Salford, Man- 

 chester. They are of great 

 service, and few weU con- 

 ducted stables are without so 

 necessary an appendage. 



The owner of a single horse, whose labour is not severe, 



may find it advantageous to use a mixture of corn composed as 



follows : — 



Crushed Oats 2| stones. 



Split Beans 2 „ 



Bran (coarse) 2 „ 



A portion of which is to be given two or three times a day, in 

 such proportions as that it may last eight or ten days. Should 



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