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ON THE MANAGEMENT OF FARM HORSES. 
Barley and turnip sowing being pretty well over, and green 
food becoming abundant, and the work light, — 
s. 
The corn is reduced to one bushel . . 3 
Green food ad libitum , which is very difficult ) ^ 
to value, but say > 
Making per week 8 
As the wheat-sowing approaches, the same feeding is given as 
in the spring, costing, as then, 12s. 3c?. per week. 
s. d. 
Thus we have for 3 months the weekly expense of 8 4 per week. 
„ 3 ditto ditto 12 3 „ 
„ 3 ditto ditto . 8 0 „ 
„ 3 diito ditto . 12 3 „ 
£2 0 10 
Averaging per week . . 10 2| 
Or £25 8s. 8 d. per annum. 
This amount varies, of course, with the value of oats and other 
provender, and is more frequently below than above the estimate 
I have given. The horses thus fed are kept in good condition, and 
are able and willing to perform any work they are required to do. 
Of course, there is some variation as to the time at which these 
changes of feeding begin or end, according to various circum- 
stances: green-food, for instance, usually lasts a month or two 
longer than the time above stated, but the difference of expense 
is not material. 
On another farm the following is the system of feeding 
adopted : — 
13 weeks on H bushel of oats 
2 pecks of beans 
li cwt. of hay 
13 weeks on 2^ bushels of pollard 
2 pecks of bruised beans 
Straw 
TO lbs of swedes 
s. 
d. 
4 
6 
3 
0 
6 
0 
13 
6 
3 
0 
1 
9 
0 
8 
7 6 * 
