860 VISITS TO REMOUNT DEPOT AT SAHARUNPORE. 
walla ( Andropogon ). I could not help thinking that the style of 
stable which has been described might be adopted with advan¬ 
tage in England, but am informed that they are considered 
insufficient protection in cold weather j they appear to me sweet, 
well ventilated, clean, and all that could be desired. The pad- 
docks are considered over stocked; they are well supplied with 
very fine trees. 
The farm is about 1500 acres in extent, and is cultivated for 
supply of food for the horses; chiefly oats are grown, but there 
is also a millet called impey, of which I have a specimen; 
carrots and endive are here, too, produced. Two hundred bullocks 
are kept for the cultivation of this farm; the grass upon it is 
inferior to that in the paddocks, and I was sorry to observe it 
much impregnated with sedge; the land appeared to me to be 
of the fen kind, and altogether did not indicate skilful agri¬ 
culture. 
Method of feeding , exercise , 8fc .—The materials employed for 
feeding are split gram, ground barley, bran, oats, grass called 
“ dup/” a impey ” (a millet), sutto, and linseed. The coarse 
sedge and reed grasses are used for litter. The ordinary feed for 
healthy horses in cold weather is five seers (ten pounds) of gram 
and bran in the proportion of two seers of gram, two of barley, 
and one of bran. Younger horses have gram two seers, one and 
a half of barley, and half a seer of bran; the gram in both instances 
is soaked. Walers on first arrival are supposed to be favoured so 
as to make them presentable, and for this purpose extra sutto 
and linseed are given. In hospital, as a rule, no barley is given, 
and but two seers of gram and one of bran. Oats without straw 
are sometimes used as a change of food, but, of course, the diet 
is left to the discretion of the veterinary surgeon, who can have 
any article he requires on requisition. In addition to the above- 
mentioned allowance of gram, &c., dup grass is given, the cost of 
which is a rupee for six maunds in cold weather, and for eight 
maunds during the rains; four to six pounds of oats in straw, 
and impey (only a rain crop) as green chaff containing nutritious 
seeds and saccharine matter. It will thus be seen that the 
feeding is decidedly high for horses entirely unworked, and at 
times without exercise for days together in consequence of 
unfavorable weather. The times of feeding are at 9 a.m. and 
5 p.m.; the animals are watered three times a day and always 
before feeding. In hot weather water is given more frequently, 
access at all times being free to the water troughs. The water 
at Saharunpore is relished, but there is a little excess of lime in 
it, to which new comers have to become accustomed, and a source 
of impurity which has to be strictly guarded against is the habit 
the syces have of bathing in the troughs when not watched. 
