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ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FARM HORSE. 
paper mast, of necessity, meet with the greatest opposition. Many 
points require farther investigation; and the closer this intricate 
subject is inquired into, more difficulties may, perhaps, arise; but 
I hope enough has been said to arouse some abler heads than mine 
to take up the subject and follow it out, and I shall only feel too 
happy in being an instrument to direct attention to it. These 
experiments have been performed solely with a view of arriving 
at truthful conclusions, and not to support any preconceived 
opinions; and I trust they will be regarded as such, and prove the 
means of exciting others to investigate this interesting and im¬ 
portant subject, that we may thereby come to some positive and 
settled opinion, and fully establish the true principles of the 
action of the horse’s foot, without which no improvement in 
shoeing can rest on any solid foundation. 
AN ESSAY ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FARM 
HORSE, 
CONNECTED WITH THE BREEDING AND REARING OF THE ANI¬ 
MAL; AND WITH THE MOST APPROVED PLAN OF FEEDING. 
By Robert Read, M.R.C.V.S , Crediton. 
“ Order is gain : waste not, want not.” 
[Continued from p. 3*26.] 
Stable Feeding. 
DURING winter farm horses are usually fed on oats, beans, 
hav, and occasionally on bulbous roots. In the management of 
feeding great caution is required. The maintenance of horses in 
good working order depends on a proper and suitable regimen; 
not to that system of engorgement or stuffing so ruinously carried 
on in too many farm stables. Of late years vast improvement has 
been made in the feeding and management of cattle; whilst the 
feeding of the cart horse has received but little attention. The 
quantity or quality of the provender allowed is rarely limited by 
the carter or waggoner (more especially hay), the rick or hay-loft is 
within reach of the rack, which is sure to be crammed in full, night 
after night; and in order to stuff it in still more full, the hay is 
frequently trodden down. Horses from this most injurious custom 
