Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-02-07
The AMERICAN HORSE.
FEEDING WORKING HORSES.


TT generally safe to Judge things principles and the mentaton
kinds and otherwise, based weknown
principles, say be guided feeding
animals by what needs and liking know that
variety food desirable that the food is with
better appetite that the digestion better for the variety and that the food
the when the work heavy and calls for perfect asm
feeding with principles rule
careless in this and as Long as the O%e uniform hay and oats
that the digestion improved by the addition of whatever the
only secretion appetite para
zed by the of the unvang food day after day. Then should
farm horses be stimulated and the food made nutritious
There great variety of food that be safely and economically
horses articles which cheaper than the hay and
Of which the unvang ration made There all the grains
dry fodde and mie hay and the different forage
desirable single satisfy any deIabnty
This better known and cities than the farm and
the city draft horses enjoying Midday meal Of green rye or clover with
infinite pleasure while the horse on the farm has the dry hay day after day.
and taste of the sweet uunt folders that are so plentiful on the
The horse should not be neglected way. Ample preparations
always laid for the early spring feeding stock Of bran should be
ration of given through has excellent
skin will that frequent irritation which the animals
quarts each lightly sailed and sweetened with moasse will be
luxury will eoqueny words might how appreciated by him.
be addition the regular feeding this be somewhat
will hardly be necessary puts appetite
which makes keep and the food will only the desire for the
One the world the English
cities Those equine monsters the brewers horses black COAL sleek
kept such condition by buketu of beer day. and this
draft @ handle heavy with per
feet The solid food of these of their mainly consists
addition the accustomed hay Sometimes bread and with
av and Sundays mash having dozen more
addition regular food This excellent thing for the skim and the
coat glsten like satin under this kind of feeding
These horses have the advantage of the richest kind diet their
beans These contain much nitrogen lean beef and for the restoration
wasted muscles caused by hard work. the heterogeneous elements food
specially useful We have no such food for horses on this side of the world
climate be unaoabe for the growth the but have
substitute almost precisely constituted the dried brewers grains that
have recently the market Peas have nearly the
BEANS and might be used substitute for em but the southern
bean and the bean closely related equally rich this needed
well partial substitute starchy
No doubt the ailments horses in America due
com-feedng would healthy
food bran ned oil meaque different from what years
the oil is almost completely extracted by the
used more frequently.
But anyhow there should be variety provided for these valuable
animals whom much gratitude due for their indispensable services
the field and labor might well be spent the preparation of the food
The hay should be finely otherwise called hafd This
should be the rule The food thus prepared fully nuT
tous than the long hay with whole wasu
feeding horse This hay partly hay and weted with
with it, This the ordinary ration changed frequently by the mash and
the fodder with the other kinds of meals On resting days
them slowly
acceptable green foods OATS
when the full blossom the fodder
That which used before the dried
ground and fed with the moened with sweeened
This makes the food paa and also nutritious
the food animals
the ceose of the food always changed into the digestive
with the food men readily make the change Of the
starch of the food into sugar in the stomach
digestion very much by
watering feeding
The absorbed by the neines with apdiy few min
gallons water
all the needed the digestion
then be needed feeding This
washing of undesd food from the stomach into the nenes where
men and much and those frequent COLES that the
whole reduce the usefulness horses fully half For
horses affected nou with coche result of mistakes
feeding but ENTHUSIASTICALLY to have appreciate result
on the duration OF life Country Gentleman"