316 ON THE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES OF RAW 
periments lasted, about 70 lb. each ; while the two horses which 
had cut grain shewed a very different result, one horse having 
retained his weight, and the other improved it by 10 lb. 70 lb. 
weight, either added to or subtracted from an animal of 10 or 
12 cwt., has a considerable effect both on his appearance and 
actual condition. From previous observation and recent calcu- 
lation, I am convinced that the saving would be very considerable, 
were the practice adopted of bruising or cutting grain to horses, 
instead of boiling or giving it whole. Reckoning the loss by 
boiling or giving the grain whole at one-sixth*, we have a saving, 
by bruising the corn, on each horse receiving 16 lb. daily, of 
nearly 3 qrs. annually ; which, on seven horses in that period, 
amounts to upwards of 20 qrs., or the value, when converted into 
money, of an ordinary farm-horse. 
It is impossible, in the limits of this paper, to enter fully into 
the inquiry respecting the most proper and economical food for 
farm-horses ; I shall, therefore, only add a few remarks. 
In a communication with which Mr. Karkeek, an eminent vete- 
rinarian, favoured me, he says, “In an English Farmers’ Society, 
of which I am a member, the subject of the cost of keeping farm- 
horses during the winter was introduced, and the following ex- 
periments were tried. The calculations are made for a single horse 
per day. 
No. 1. d. 
10 lb. chaffed straw, at 1/. per ton 1 
10 lb. of oats, at 35. per bushel 9 
16 lb. of turnips, at 10s. per ton 1 
Expense of cutting and chaffing 
No. 2. 
16 lb. hay, at 3 5 . 6d. per cwt 6 
5 lb. of oats, at 3 5 . per bushel 
16 lb. of turnips, at 10s. per ton 1 
11 * 
No. 3. 
28 lb. of steamed turnips 3£ 
7 lb. of coals at Is. per bushel 1 
Expense of steaming 0£ 
16 lb. of straw, at 1/. per ton l£ 
6 £.” 
I have heard some practical men estimate the loss at £d. or 1th. 
