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MR. DICK ON COOKING FOOD FOR HORSES. 
which are rather of a larger size than Mr. Croal’s, 101b. to 121b. 
cut hay, with 161b. of oats, and they are in excellent condition. 
But the advantages of preparing food for horses have been 
pursued still further by Captain Cheyne, late of the Civil Engi¬ 
neers, who now holds a share in the posting establishment with 
Mr. D. Wright. 
Finding each horse consuming above a stone of hay per day, at 
Is. 4d. per stone, the straw 6d. per stone, and being constantly 
annoyed with the careless waste which daily occurred, he deter¬ 
mined to give only cut hay, and he soon found that none of the 
horses reqnired, or were able to eat, the former quantity; he, 
therefore, gradually reduced it, bruising the oats also, and mixing- 
all together. 
Observing the benefits accruing from this practice, he directed 
his attention further to the subject, and gradually reduced the 
quantity of hay, and added a quantity of cut straw. He then 
began to consider the quantity of nutritious matter in, and the 
cost of, the various kinds of grain, and at length changed the sys¬ 
tem of feeding to the following. Each horse was given 151b. of 
the following mixture : — 
10 bushels cut straw.90lb. 
6 do. bruised oats, 29 lb. per bushel 174 
1 do. bruised beans.59 
Or, of Oats . 
Beans 
Straw 
15lb. to each horse. 
And at night, in addition to the above, about 251b. of the fol 
lowing mixture:— 
One boll of potatoes at 7s. 6d., 5 cwt. (steamed) ,£0 7 6 . 560 lb. 
Fine Barley dust, 10d. per stone. 0 2 1 . 36 
Cut straw, at 6d. per stone.0 10. 40 
Salt, at 3s. per cwt. . 002. 6 
The cost for each horse was, therefore, about 5d. for supper, 
and about Is. for daily forage and cooking, in all, about Is. 5Jd. 
During grass, each horse got about 101b. grains, 201b. grass 
during the day, and at night 35 to 40 lb. of grass were put into 
their racks. On this feeding, however, they rather lost flesh, 
but they had been doing more work than on the former diet. 
Lately, he has been using bruised barley and beans, with cut 
hay, as the hay is now cheaper than the straw. A man is con¬ 
stantly employed in preparing the food and serving it out, whose 
wages, and the expense of fire, are included in the above expense 
of feeding. With such feeding most people would have supposed 
3231b. 
8 lb. 
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