Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1858 — Feeding Horses. [ARTICLE]

Feeding Horses.

A correspondent of the Scientific American remarks on this • import trim topic: “The towing of boats on the Erie canal is done in part by hofses that are taken along with the boats, and partly by towing companies who keep their horses at stations about twelve miles apart along the whole length of lhe canal. There are three of these towing companies, and they employe about 1400 horses. They have found, after, great- experience, that the most economical and best feed for their horses, is a mixture composed of .equal parts,,-by measure, of corn-meal and mill feed (bran or •shorts, weighing about twenty pounds to the bushel) mixed up wet, with cut hay, and they accordingly feed this altogether.

» Kentucky, a plowman became enamored of a milkmaid on a neighboring farm. His addresses were rejected, and the disappointed swain, full of melancholly and revenge, procured a rope, went to the farm, and—tied all the cows’ tails togotlier.

A trial of speed for fifty dollars a side, between a horse and a locomot ivc, came off at. St. Thomas, Canada West, last week. was eighty ro'ds( and the horse came In Wrivinner by half a length.