ADVANTAGES OF CRUSHED OATS OVER WHOLE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 270, 6 June 1888, Page 3

ADVANTAGES OF CRUSHED OATS OVER WHOLE.

A most iinpjiLanb cxpciiment has lately boon made by t v io London Omnibus Company, who arc owners of 6000 horses, on Iho subject of crushed i\ whole food. One-half of the horses weic confined to one kind of feeding, viz., that of bruised oats and cut, hay and straw, and the other half to whole oaks and hay. The lation allowed per day to each hois-c, according to the one system, was— Bruised oats, 161bs ; cut hay, 7Ub» ; cut etraw, 2.Ubb. Thequantity allowed, according to the old s>s>tem, was — Unbruised oats', 191bs ; uncut hay, lSlbs. Thero is thus a saving of 61bs on the feeding of each horso, and ihirf saving is not mcroly in the quantity, but in the value of the articles employed, tor stra.vv in tho former case was substituted for hay in the latter. The advantago of one kind of feeding ovor tho other was far more apparent when reduced to monoy value Tho saving by using tho bruised oats and cut hay is nearly 2^d per day for each horso, which is equal' to £02 10s per day for the 6000 horses. And Uu3 saving was accomplished without any sacriiico wnatovpr^ for all tho drivers and thoso lyivin^ charge of the horses agrppd "that the dUTovonco in the pon,d.iiian of tho horses was decidedly in favour of thoso fed on bruised oats and cut hay and straw.