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CHEAP FOOD FOR HORSES. 
for his personal safety than the success of the experiment. Mr. 
Miller then requested some of the company to irritate the animal, 
with which desire they reluctantly complied. Off set the horse ; 
but he had scarcely made a few springs ere Mr. Miller at once 
subdued him, bringing him to a literal stand-still. This was re- 
peated several times, every means being employed to provoke still 
farther the restive animal; but he was as often brought up by 
Mr. Miller, and apparently with the greatest facility. All present 
expressed themselves gratified and surprised, not more by the 
efficiency than the neatness and simplicity of the invention. The 
apparatus can, we understand, be obtained at a trifling cost, and 
can, besides, be used with any harness or riding bridle, without 
alteration. 
Upon the vast utility of such an invention it would be almost 
superfluous to dwell, as the many and frightful accidents which 
yearly occur shew that this may be well described as a gift to 
humanity. We believe that it was the accident which happened 
to the Marchioness of Waterford that prompted Mr. Miller, who 
had long thought on the subject, to direct his serious attention to 
some remedy for this evil. After considerable study, he at length 
succeeded in devising this mode, for which he has obtained his 
patent. The principle of the invention consists in applying the 
check to the throat instead of the jaw-bone ; but the apparatus is 
very ingeniously contrived, and has, in common with some of the 
most remarkable inventions, the inestimable merit of simplicity. 
Cheap Food for Horses. 
A propositton has been made to the French Minister of 
War, by a M. Longchamp, to try a new method of feeding 
horses, which, he asserts, will produce a vast saving in the amount 
of forage necessary for the army. This gentleman proposes to 
make a sort of bread, three-fourths potatoes and the rest oat- 
meal, with which the horses are to be fed in place of oats. The 
average quantity of oats for a horse per day, M. Longchamp 
estimates to be 101b., costing about thirteen sous. He proposes 
to replace this food by 101b. of the bread made with oats and 
potatoes, the price of which will be only five sous, leaving a saving 
of eight sous a-day. As there are 80,000 horses in the army, a 
saving would arise on the whole of the cavalry of 11,680,000 fr. 
a year. M. Longchamp considers this food to be more nutri- 
tious than the food generally given to horses, for a great portion of 
the oats taken by a horse are imperfectly masticated, and there- 
