332 



Feeds and Feeding. 



513. Rations for army horses. — The following are the rations 



allowed army horses in the countries noted: 



Ration. 



lbs. hay. 



Government Weight of horse. Concentrates. Roughage. 



United States/ cavalry, 950 tol, 150 lbs. 12 lbs. oats, 



com or 

 barley. 



United States, artillery, 1,050 to 1,200 lbs. 12 lbs. oats, 



com or \ 14 lbs. hay. 

 barley. 



Germany, » cavalry 1,050 lbs. 10 lbs. oats.* | 5.5 lbs. hay. 



oats, 1 



or \ 14 



oats, 1 



or \ 14 



Y- ) 



lbs. straw 



hay. 

 straw. 



Germany, cavalry-officers' 11 lbs. oata. | 7'7ibirtra^ 



Great Britain," cavalry 10 lbs. oala. ^\ j^gj ^^^. 



f 12 lbs hav 

 Great Britain, cavalry, severe duty 12-14 lbs. oats, i g j^g" g^™!^ 



* Wolff (Article 441) refera to the German cavalry ration as containing 

 11 pounds of oats. 



5J4. Rations used by street-car companies. — The rations nsed 

 by street- car companies are interesting not only because they show 

 the feed required by animals thus worked, but, because of the 

 constant and severe labor performed by this class of animals, 

 we can learn of the food requirements of hard-worked horses. 

 The following rations are given by Fleming* as the daily allow- 

 ance for horses of some of the principal tramway (horse-car) com- 

 panies of Great Britain: 



Rations for British tramway {street-car) horses — Fleming. 



Special Agent Mattes, of the Department of Agriculture, has 



' From information furnished by Ohas. Bird, Quartermaster General 

 U. S. Army, Washington. 

 2 Landw. Jahrb., 1887, Suppl. TIL p. 72. 

 ' Fleming, The Practical Horse Keeper, p. 89. ' Loc. cit., p. 88. 



