180 
ON THE MANAGEMENT OF FARM HORSES. 
So that, to obtain each of these ingredients respectively, it would 
be necessary for the horse to eat daily — 
Carrots to supply albumen . . .174 lbs. 
Ditto the 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 eighteen gallons of 
ivater. 
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 hay 16£ lbs., costing . . 8 6 
Amounting together per diem . . 18*2 
Or 10s..7£cZ. per week; which supplies, as we have seen — 
Starch, &c. Fat. Albumen. 
11-26 1 16 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. 
d. 
costing 4* 8 ; 
yielding 
Starch, &c. 
2 3 lbs. 
Fat. 
• 25 
Albumen. 
• 55 
Hay H 
„ 175 
1*4 „ 
• 14 
•329 
Bran 2 1 
„ 1-25 
55 
•117 
•482 
Carrots, 84 
51 
„ 9- 
yy 
8 - 
• 32 
1-2 
16-80 
7 
12)117-60 
11-7 
•845 
2-561 
Or 9s..9£t/. per week ; being a saving of lOd. 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 
