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TURNING HORSES OUT TO GRASS. 
cows will eat, produces both abundance of milk and milk of 
good quality. 
Pigs are fond of old pulp, and they do well upon it if they 
receive at the same time barley- or pea-meal, or a mixture of 
both meals. 
Beet-root pulp, selling at 12s. a ton, unquestionably is a 
cheap and valuable food, which may be used as a good sub- 
stitute for roots. At that price, and even at a somewhat 
higher figure, I doubt not the refuse pulp of sugar manufac- 
tories will always command a ready sale in England . — Journal 
of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1870. 
TURNING HORSES OUT TO GRASS. 
To the Editor of the Times. 
Sir, — Some time since you did me the honour to insert in 
The Times a letter on “ Watering Horses,” and it is to be 
hoped that it has had the effect of inducing a more liberal 
allowance to those animals. 
“ Turning out to grass” is a subject of scarcely less im- 
portance ; and the popular belief that the horse is benefited 
by a “ month's run” is a fallac} 7- that needs exposure. 
Now that the pastures are beginning to look green, and 
the weather promises to become warm, owners are thinking 
of giving their horses a treat by turning them out to grass. 
“ I have worked my horses hard,” say they, “ and they 
need a summer's run. It will rest their legs and feet ; be- 
sides green food is the natural provender for horses, and 
they will enjoy a few’ months’ rest at grass and be all the 
better for it.” This is a very general impression, but in 
its application to worn or used horses nothing can be more 
erroneous. 
It is all very well for the young animal, protected by long 
hair, lengthy mane and tail, whose time while young has to 
be got over one w ? ay or another, and it is found convenient 
to let him forage for himself. But with stale and “ groggy” 
horses requiring rest, and whose owners turn them out 
with this object, the matter is entirely different. “ Rest,” 
properly so called, is not to be had in the pasture. 
In the simple process of gathering his food the horse w’alks 
many miles during the twenty-four hours if the pasture be 
bare, and the same process obliges him to throw extra w r eight 
on his fore legs and feet, w hich it has been the intention of 
the owner to “rest.” 
