288 PRODUCTIVE FEEDING OF FARM ANIMALS 
* 
gradually increased until he is allowed from 20 to 40 ears per day 
at maturity. In spite of this fact, when these very horses come 
Fast, top our markets, and pass under the management of the 
city stable boss, corn is absolutely prohibited as dangerous to feed ; 
yet it requires a long time to induce and teach some of these horses 
to eat anything else.” 
Other Concentrates.—Dried brewers’ grains with shelled corn 
and wheat bran, in amounts of 8, 4, and 2 pounds, respectively, 
were found to give good results fed to street-car horses, in experi- 
ments at the New Jersey’® and Massachusetts stations.*® About 
one pound of linseed meal per head daily with corn and oats 
gave satisfactory results with farm horses in trials at the Iowa 
station,’’ maintaining their weights and spirits and willingness to 
work. On account of its laxative tendencies, it should be used in 
only small amounts (less than one pound per head daily, espe- 
cially in summer). Cotton-seed meal, beet and cane molasses, dried 
distillers’ grains, dried beet pulp, bes are other doncentrates used 
regularly in rations for horses in different parts of the country. 
‘There is, therefore, a great variety of feeds to choose from in feed- 
ing horses in almost all sections; evidently there is no so-called 
one ration for horses any more than for other classes of farm ani- 
mals. “Any feeding stuff or combination of feeding stuffs that 
furnishes the necessary and desirable nutrients at least cost should 
be the important consideration in preparation of rations for farm 
horses and mules.”?® 
Wintering Farm Horses.—Farm work is comparatively light 
in winter time in northern States, and the horses then often stand 
idle for a considerable period. If they are fed expensive feeds, like 
timothy hay and oats, at this time, they will soon “ eat their heads 
off,” and it is impossible to keep them in good working condition 
at a low feed cost. Cornstalks or corn fodder furnishes an excellent 
roughage for winter feeding of horses; cereal straws are also valu- 
able; a few ears of corn are often all the grain the horses receive 
with this roughage. 
The question of cheap substitutes for oats and timothy for 
wintering farm horses was studied in an experiment with twelve 
horses at the Michigan station;’® six of these were fed a regular 
* Report 1892. * North Carolina Bulletin 189, 
* Bulletin 99, * Bulletin 254, 
* Bulletin 109. 
