The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-23
From the Western Rural.
FEED FOR HORSES,

"A paper was read recently before the
Farmers Club of the New York Insti-
tute. contributed by DR.. Heath He
considers the bean as one of the richest
in protein of any Of the vegetables
grown. The horse bean, ground to
coarse powder and mixed with bran or
shorts in the proportion of one part
beans to four of bran, is much used in
the East for h0rse-feed. Coarse bean
powder mixed with cracked corn and
oats was advised as feed for horses,
which will lessen greatly the expense
of their keeping. The proportion sug-
gested was one bushel oil beans, two of
corn, three Of oats and four bushels OF
bran or the same weight Of shorts. Of
this an equivalent in weight to that Of
four quarts of oats, fed three times per
diem, was pronounced & high feed for
q handwriting horse CT horse for
fast work.
The full analysis next given Of grains
driedat a temperature Of 2l2 degrees
Fahrenheit proved that corn is the
most heating grain, because it contains
8 per cent. of oils. The legumes con-
tain but 2 per cent. OF Matchmaking
matter, while they are further distin-
guishod from White corn by the large
proportion Of protein compounds they
contain, ana their consequent greater
nutritiye power. The tables given also
showed that oats are exceedingly rich
and nutritious and worthy OF more
general use. They contain Of the pro
TEN compounds about 20 per cent. The
relative value Of Matchmaking proper
ties Of the following were next given.
Rice stood first III the table, rye second,
maize third, oats fourth, barley fifth,
wheat sixth, buckWheat seventh, lin
seed eighth, linseed cake ninth, and
beans, peas, etc, tenth From this last
table it was learned that in winter we
should cap rice with butter to make us
warm Cat meats viii also generate an
imal heat) that rye and corn bread are
best for cold weather; that buckWheat
cakes, with plenty Of butter and syrup,
are not SO heating as oatmeal and that
diet for both man and beast, when we'll
understood, can be regulated for COM
fort at all seasons Of the year.
In conclusion, Dr. Heath summed up
the whole matter by briefly rostating
the facts learned from the various la
bles submitted which were as follows:
The value Of the legumin0us plants as
food for both man and animals, and
the great economy in feeding these
crops when in q green state. In mus
clo-making (Which means also strength,
speed and endurance We have no kind
of food 50 rich for the horse Of all work
and for the horse Of speed as the le-
gumes. They stand firs5 fOr strength
and speed and lack the heating proper
ties, therefore their unusual value for
road horses. Rye is too heating, as also
is corn, and oats rank third in the heat
making grains, used as feed for horses.
Oats being third, and beans, peas, ETC.,
tenth in Matchmaking properties, DR..
Heath advised a combination Of the
two when fast driving is desired, and
the mean between them viii be gained
for Matchmaking with the strength and
spoed-making Of the legunes and the
protein properties of the oats. Mix
them according to weight equally to
gain the happy medium; two bushels
Of oats at thirty-tWo pounds per bushel
and one bushei of beans at sixty pounds
per bushel would be the proportion;
feed OF this four pounds three times a
day and thereby avoid, While gaining
speed and strength, two undesirable
things, T. e., heating and sweating in
fast driving.
PROF. joins G. Mc1[YHE, Of the
Racine Academy, was in Kenosha last