224 THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. 
best plan: First week, bran-mashes morning and evening, with oats at noon; 
second and third week, oats morning and noon, with bran-mashes at night; 
thereafter, bran-mashes every second night, with oats at other times. 
Comparative Values of Foods.—Animals doing quick work expend 
much muscular fiber, and hence require food containing fi4rzue to restore 
the loss. Corn and beans furnish this; but hay contains some salt-properties 
not in corn, so that it should be added. The brain, too, requires fatty matter, 
albumen, and gelatinous elements, and carbon is requisite for animal heat. 
The value of foods for the blood depends upon the amount they contain of 
the component parts of the blood, as chlorides (including common salt), 
phosphates and alkalies. While, as before stated, fibrine and albumen are 
highly nutritive for horses doing fast or laborious work, food containing 
sugar and starch are especially adapted to the production of fat, and also of 
carbon, the generator of heat. The woody part of food is not nutritive, 
but supplies the necessary bulk, and gives the moderate distension of the 
stomach required for proper digestion. Keeping in mind the foregoing 
remarks, one may with tolerable accuracy determine the relative values of 
foods for different conditions by an examination of the subjoined table of 
« Stonehenge,” which exhibits the proportion of the different constituents 
in 100 parts of the various foods named: 
Starch Pibrine 
Woody and and Fatty Saline Water. 
Fiber. Sugar, |Albumen.| Matter. | Matter. 
MAY i somes Sa Us cn tasai Sais oe aoe Ow 30 40 7 2 7 14 
Clover Hay......sseeeenec seen 25 40 9 3 9 14 
at SAW 6 oisisie ac wisiniare easaseiaveta aye 50 31 * 1 a trace GG 12.5 
MD AtS i, 6.0. crsier amelie Seletnaien Messrs erst 20 53 11.4 .6 2.5 125 
Beansvies sacvosneeameseors sien s 14.5 40 26 2.5 3 14 
POS e ic cacotiertinentean tema eed 9 48 24 2 3 14 
Barl€ tec. eden tatnee anes sicnrse 14 52 1335 235 3 15 
Indian Corn. ....... 0.02 cece eee 6 62 12 5 I 14 
BEAM cvcecaes) cave ki nace aoa asa maloieeiny ea 54 2 20 4 vi, 13 
Carrots .......6608 ee ee ! 3 10 1.5 ° 136 84 
* The upper third, with the head, has about 7. 
General Remarks on feeding. 
varied according to the length of time the horse works. The feeds should 
be at regular intervals. Harnessing is a matter of such short time that the 
horse should be unharnessed while feeding and receive grooming when 
stabled for feed. xtra quantities of food should not be given in antictpa- 
tion of special work, as it will be attended with a waste in undigested food, 
or derange the appetite. Brood-mares and colts should be allowed good 
yasturage, which may also be accorded with profit to other horses not in con- 
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