Hints on agricultural subjects, and on the best means of improving the condition of the labouring classes / By J.C. Curwen.

  • John Christian Curwen
Date:
1809
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Credit: Hints on agricultural subjects, and on the best means of improving the condition of the labouring classes / By J.C. Curwen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COLLIERY HORSES. £ s. d. Slb.ofhay, and 8lb. of straw, cut. 0 0 5a 61b. of carrots, - 0 0 2a 1 ‘Jib. of oats, - 0 1 0 I stone of steamed straw, 0 0 0 1 10£ Hay valued.at Sd. per stone; 0-ld. for cutting; straw at 2d. per stone. Should I find the .horses unable to perforin their work upon this food, I shall make an addition of some few pounds of oats. What price hay may rise to, should the season continue with the severity it has begun, it is difficult to say. By increasing the quan- tity of oats, I should have very little doubt of being able to do altogether without hay ; for example, hay at ]2d, per stone, and oats at 14d., I should prefer six pounds of oats, with a stone of cut straw, costing 8d. to a stone of hay at 12d. When steamed potatoes are given, the less water the horses have the better. It will naturally be expected of me, that I should not withhold from the public the result of eight years’ practice of feeding horses and work-oxen with steamed potatoes. If it were in my power to add wreight to my former opinions and assertions, I should be justified in de- claring that every former predilection for the plan is strengthened, and I have the satisfaction of finding the d opinion