Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1882 — A Horse’s Stomach. [ARTICLE]

A Horse’s Stomach.

A learned writer makes the following notes about the horse which many can read to their profit. He says : The horse has the smallest stomach in proportion to his size of any animal. Fifteen or sixteen quarts is its utmost capacity. The space is completely filled by four quarts of oats and the saliva that goes into the stomach with them. Horses are generally overfed, and not fed often enough. For a horse in moderate work, six or eight quarts of bruised oats and ten pounds of fine hay a day are sufficient. This should be fed in at least three meals, and is better if fed in four. A horse’s digestion is very rapid, and therefore he gets hungry sooner than a man. When lie is hungry he is ineffective and wears out very rapidly. ¥ou can never entirely disoourage a New Jersey man. When he comes down to his last dollar he kicks up a spade and goes out to dig up some of Kidd’s boned treasure.