22Q ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON STOCK FEEDS AND FEEDING 



sleep and feel well. An unclean bed is liable to produce sickness. 



Salt. — A little salt occasionally is required by horses to keep 

 the body in good tone. This may be supplied in the rock or 

 pulverized form. 



Wintering Working Horses. — In the winter when there is prac- 

 tically no work for the horse comfortable quarters should be 

 provided. Coarse roughage as corn stover, straw, etc. may be 



Fig. 17. — Draft type : Clydesdale— after Good. 



used to advantage until spring time. About 6 or 7 weeks before 

 the working period sets in the horses should be given a light 

 grain ration and exercised to fit them for work. 



System in Feeding. — Dalrymple in Louisiana Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Bui. 115, says: 



"A feeder may have all the information necessary concerning 

 feeding standards, balanced rations, nutritive ratios, etc., and yet 

 he cannot possibly secure the maximum of good results from the 



