. Australian Garden and Field. 466 THE GARDEN AND FIELD. March, 1914 ® XKe Farm & The Hoover Farm Notes. During the century which has elapse<l since Robert Bakewell, the jiioneer of scientific breedin<;, be ran his work, ing. Bread was once a common food for horses in l^ngland, and is still used in some i)arts of Europe. It is made in long loaves, from third-class rye flour ; they are baked as hard as a brick, and are perfectly drv, the people holding that dry bread is more digestible nd also keeps longer. Two pounds f this rve bread is considered rqual to about ,^lb. of oats. There
. Australian Garden and Field. 466 THE GARDEN AND FIELD. March, 1914 ® XKe Farm & The Hoover Farm Notes. During the century which has elapse<l since Robert Bakewell, the jiioneer of scientific breedin<;, be ran his work, ing. Bread was once a common food for horses in l^ngland, and is still used in some i)arts of Europe. It is made in long loaves, from third-class rye flour ; they are baked as hard as a brick, and are perfectly drv, the people holding that dry bread is more digestible nd also keeps longer. Two pounds f this rve bread is considered rqual to about ,^lb. of oats. There is probably no kind of cross in horse-breeding in which there are greater possibilities in- herent than that between the ) . and the horse. I'lie presence of a dash of pony blood is admittedly always found to be in every was advantageous in a himter, imiyart- ing, as it does, an increased degree of stoutness and stamina, while it also tends to promote soundness, ponies notoriously being much sounder, as a whole, than the horse breeds, and especially so as regards the wind. Thus roarin;>; is practically unknown in them. Indigestion in horses, like the same trouble in the human bear, is ^•ery common, and productive of a multitude of ills and afflic- tions. Treating indigestion in the four-legged animal is about the same as trying to cure dyspepsia in the human being. The more one uses drugs, as a rule, the greater the need. The logical course in both instances is to endeavour to discover the causes, and the rest is easy. Often there are four or more types in even a small herd lor flock raised by one man : with no defi- nite . twe at all. It is thus evi- dent that the average stockman does not know what he is breeding for. Where men breed toward a definite market type they are siire to make more money and make it c|uicker. It is of the utmost importance to keep strictly in mind the object for which animals are bred, and hold strictly to that end. Any de- viation is sure to r
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