400 
FEEDING FARM-HOKSES. 
of the animals which tenant the cultivator’s lands. Researches, 
indeed, like those of Mr. Childers, Dr. Lyon Playfair, and Mr. 
Morton, will hardly fail to attract the attention of even the most 
indolent; for every one will, from these experiments, see cause to 
conclude, that they have examined the borders only of a field 
which future investigators will more extensively explore, with still 
greater advantage to the owners of live stock ; and not to such pro- 
prietors only, but to the whole land of their birth ; for these inva- 
luable experiments all tend to shew that the soil is capable of sus- 
taining still more numerous, more healthy, and more profitable flocks 
and herds than any which have hitherto been so justly the boast of 
the great farmers of these prosperous islands. 
FEEDING FARM-HORSES. 
The following are the modes of feeding, as well as the cost of the 
system, practised by several farmers on light and heavy soils : — 
1. Soil with clover in the early part of the summer, grass the 
latter part. In winter, long hay, miller’s offal corn, or baked pota- 
toes, according to prices. 2. Soil at summer when practicable, or 
send out to grass. In winter, chaff, cut hay, oats, with carrots, at 
the rate of six bushels of oats and seven bushels of carrots for four 
horses during the week. 3. Five bushels of pollard with one cwt. 
of hay, half cut and half long, per horse. 4. Bruised barley and 
bran, with cut hay, and a small quantity of long in the racks at 
night. 
ON LIGHT LAND OCCUPATIONS. 
No. 5. s. d 
1 bushel of coats 3 3 
2 stones of bean-meal 2 4 
£ cwt. of cut hay 2 0 
Chaff 1 0 
Per horse 8 7 
No. 6. 
6 bushels of oats 18 0 
2 ditto of beans 10 0 
4 cwt. of hay 16 0 
Corn, chaff, and cutting .... 12 0 
Allowance for six horses 56 0 
Per horse 9 4 
Extra allowance on journey 1 0 
No. 7. s. d. 
5 stones of corn (various) . . 6 0 
75 lbs. of long hay 2 4 
Chaff 2 0 
Per horse 10 4 
1 bushel of ground beans ... 5 3 
4 cwt. of hay, cut for six 
horses, equal each horse to 2 8 
Corn, chaff, and a few swedes 1 0 
8 11 
Extra allowance for journeys 
for six horses, 2 bushels 
of oats in the spring, each 
horse about 1 0 
10 4 
9 11 
