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Management of Farm-Horses. 
Ciirrots to supply albumen . , 1*J4 lbs. 
Ditto tbe fat 300 „ 
Ditto the starch, &c. . . . . Ill „ 
3)585 „ 
Or taking the average of the whole . 195 
A quantity much too great for the stomach of the horse, and 
injurious likewise from containing no less than ei(jhtccn gallons 
of umter. 
Horses have certainly been kept principally on carrots and 
straw, but their work has generally been slight and on light sandy 
land, where perhaps two-thirds of the horse power in good con- 
dition would have done equally well. 
Carrots, however, when grown on a farm can be advantage- 
ously used in combination with other food, if given in such pro- 
portion that the quantity of water contained in them shall not 
prove injurious, and the three principal constituents shall be com- 
bined in the proportion we have previously stated, as constituting 
healthy feeding with oats and hay. A working-horse requires, 
as we have seen — 
d. 
Oats 10 lbs., costing . . . 9'6 
Clover ha}' 16^ lbs., costing . . 8*6 
Amounting together per diem . . 18'2 
Or 10s. 1\d. per week ; which supplies, as we have seen — 
Slarcli, &c. Fat. Albumen. 
11-26 riG 2-6 
Now, by giving the following articles of food we shall be able to 
supply the same amount and description of nourishment : — 
Oats 5 lbs. costing 
Hay 3;^ „ „ 
Uraii 2j „ 
Carrots, 84 „ „ 
d. 
Stavch, &c. 
F;it. 
Albumen. 
; 4- 8; 
yielding 
j» 
2-3 lbs. 
• 25 
• ;)5 
1-75 
1-4 „ 
• 14 
•329 
1-25 
S) 
•117 
•482 
9- 
» 
8- 
• 32 
1^2 
16-80 
11-7 
•845 
2-561 
l'2)117-60 
Or 9*. 9^f/. per week ; being a saving of \^d. per horse per week. 
In the above calculation I have valued the carrots at 20s. per 
ton, which price I think is high enough when we consider the 
large weight that can be grown of them. It will be seen, how- 
ever, that while it will answer the farmer's purpose to consume 
them himself at such a price, yet when he can sell them for 
upwards of 25s. per ton it is more profitable to do so and feed 
his horses on other food. It is a bad plan to give horses a few 
