THE FEEDING OF LIVE STOCK. 169 



A writer in the Breeders' Gazette (Jan. 11, 

 1893) feeds horses to be shipped to city markets 

 with half oats and half shelled corn. To this 

 grain he adds one pint of oil-cake meal per 

 feed. He feeds all the grain they will eat up 

 clean, and liberally of hay at night and only at 

 night. While horses should never be fat, those 

 poor in flesh must be fed up to a suitable con- 

 dition for shipment. 



For the use of the by-products of corn for 

 horses the reader is referred to the experience 

 of Prof. Caldwell, given further on in this chap- 

 ter under by-products. 



No one need hesitate at feeding horses with 

 the dried corn plant in place of hay. At a lib- 

 eral estimate three pounds of fodder may be 

 considered equal to one pound of timothy hay. 

 If the fodder was carefully harvested and well 

 cured probably two pounds would be its equiv- 

 alent. Silage does not seem so well suited for 

 horses, although a small amount of it may be 

 fed with safety and with beneficial results. Ten 

 or 15 lbs., in the writer's opinion, would be 

 ample. See reference to silage for horses un- 

 der chapter on silos and silage. 



Cattle.— No kind of grain is relished by cat- 

 tle more than corn-meal, while well-preserved 

 corn-fodder or silage is becoming more and 

 more popular as rough feed for these animals. 

 For dairy cattle this food is unexcelled for giv- 



