Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-07-04
=. fHE Horse.

SLOWING foods are always
a01@nded for feeding horses.
It's stand at the Lead of the list
6f The articles Of the horses teed.
shelled oats coataiu about seven
hundred and forty parts of nutri-
tive matter to the enc thousand.
They are easy of digestion, healthy
IN the effect on the system, i'm.
nroylns the condition generally,
and enabling the horse to perform
his work without injury to his
health or spirit. The quantity re-
onired per day for a horse Of or
2 dinarywOlk, with proper allowance
othay, is about sixteen pounds
,ay. The allowance, or ration, Of
United States cavalry horse Is
we pounds of oats and twelve
s of hay. Cut oats is very
lr a horse not working.
common Indian corn Is very
extensively used in tie West as an
article of diet for the horse, but
alone is too stimulating. 1t may
be used in winter, and especially
with horses that are worked hard.
The meal, used with chopped teed
or oats, is good. indeed, it would
be the best aud most economical at
all times to have the corn ground.
None of its nutriment Is Their lost.
Beans may be fed to the horse
alone, or ground up with other
food. IN the one thousand parts
they contain FIVE hundred and
seventy parts Of nutritive matter.
They are very invigOrating ar
ticle of diet. They are very
stimulating aud are also astringent.
The use of beans alone would cause
announcement cOstiveneSS. 1t would
pay we'll for our farmers to give
more attention to the culture OF
beans for feeding purposes. Two
pounds of crashed beans day
added 70 the horses feed during
the winter will greatly increase his
strength and endurance.
Peas possess similar properties
to beans. They are not quite so
stimulating. They should be
crushed or ground. They contain,
in one thousand parts, five hundred
and seventy-fOur parts of nutrltive
matter; but like beans, this is by
no means the standard OF their
invigOrating and sustaining quail
:ty. They are much more valuable
as an article of food than this
would indicate. In some parts OF
this country buckwheat is ground
with other feed, and is considered
very nutritious and healthy.
The better part OF the wheat
-four is too expensive for horse
feed it is only the shorts aud bran
that are giving the horse. Shorts
are mild, nOn-stlmulating and
nutritious. Mixed with cut or
chopped hay shorts are valuable
feed. Scalded shorts are often
RECOMMENDED as the first feed after
recovery from sickness, and also
during sickness. They have a
laxative effect on the bowels.
Bran is not so nutritious as
shorts, but mixed with cut hay is
very much relished, and make
good feed. Barley contains nine
hundred and twenty parts OF
nutrititlve matter in the one thou
sand pounds. 1t is the common
food for the horse in some parts OF
the continent of Europe. 1t is
very stimulating and laxative. 1t
should be bruised and given with
cut hay. Boiled barley is good
laxative.
Potatoes contain tgN hundred
and thirty parts ot1ak of ne matter
to the one though has ads. They
are given raw and sliced in cut
feed, bat they are best boiled or
steamed. 1t is best to give them
in mixed feed.
Carrots are regarded as prOmot'
ing the strength and endurance OF
the horse IN a high degree. They
are much esteemed as feed Tor
sick and covalescent horses. In
health, carrots may be given sliced
in cut feed. Halt bushel a day
is sufficient, If other strong feed Is
not given. Boiled carrots are
gwen to sick horses. Carrots are
much used in feeding racing and
other sporting horses. They great
ly improve the horses wind.