PUMPKINS AS FOOD FOR HORSES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2215, 9 February 1886, Page 2

PUMPKINS AS FOOD FOR HORSES.

— .-—4, —, dL We have received' letters, sayTtho Queenslander, from correspondents on this matter, and we aro glad to find that experience has proved pumpkins to be useful as horse food. One correspondent writes that" on the Darling Downs and elsewhere they are largely used for that purpose; and that, the horses not only thrive; but work well ion thorn! ~,; I n a season like tho present, when water urt scarce and bad, and the grass dry and, biuding, worms and costivenossjp. result, An alterative then requirod) and being, at once succulent, nutritive, and cheap, appear to meet the requirements of the case better than auy other vegetable—of course, • mashes of barloy, wheat, or bran, or even potatoes given raw, are preferable, but on the score of convenience and expense, whore large numbers of horses are to be fed such alteiatives aro not to be thought of." If the pumpkin has proved to bo "such a useful food for horses in Queensland, perhaps they may be found equally useful here.