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Carlisle Patriot - 18 May 1844
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                          THE FARMERS' SCRAP BOOK.
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                                       FARM HORSES.     [continued]

The Chairman at the meeting, (S. B. WILD, Esq., Costock), took occasion to
notice that the plan of steaming potatoes as food for horses was not new. The
celebrated John Christian CURWEN, who was one of the representatives in
Parliament for Cumberland, published an account of his practice, which he had
been forced into by the extraordinary high price of hay, for the keep not only
of his farm horses, but his horses employed in the collieries - as follows: -

          MR. CURWEN'S PLAN OF FEEDING HORSES.

                    Potatoes Cheap.

             Farm Horses.
                                                    s.  d.
1½ stone of steamed potatoes ..... 0  4½
7 lbs cut straw ............................ 0  1
Labour ....................................... 0  1
Steaming .................................... 0  0½
7 lbs uncut straw ........................ 0  1
8 lbs oats, at 3s 6d ..................... 0  8
                                                  --------
                                                    1  4

            Colliery Horses.
                                                    s.  d.
1 stone of steamed potatoes ....... 0  3
Steaming .................................... 0  0¼
9 lbs of hay ................................ 0  4
Cutting ....................................... 0  0¼
7 lbs of straw ............................. 0  1
12 lbs of oats ............................. 1  0
                                                  --------
                                                   1  8½

                   Potatoes advanced in price.

             Farm Horses.
                                                    s.  d.
7 lbs of steamed potatoes ........... 0  3½
6 lbs of oats ............................... 0  6
6 lbs of carrots ........................... 0  2½
14 lbs of straw ........................... 0  2
                                                   --------
                                                   1  2

             Colliery Horses.
                                                    s.  d.
7 lbs of steamed potatoes ........... 0  3½
8 lbs of hay and 8 lbs of straw .... 0  5½
Cutting ....................................... 0  1
12 lbs of oats ............................. 1  0
6 lbs of carrots ........................... 0  2½
                                                   --------
                                                    2  0½

Mr. CURWEN adds, that since the former part of his work was prefaced for the
press, potatoes advanced so high, with every appearance of being higher, that he
was necessitated to provide a substitute, and that he feared his horses, being
accustomed to warm food, would suffer from an entire change of system, and
therefore adopted the steaming of oat straw, and mixing ground oats with it.

                   Potatoes Dear.

             Farm Horses.
                                                    s.  d.
1 stone of cut straw, steamed ...... 0  2½
8 lbs of oats ................................ 0  3
6 lbs of carrots ............................ 0  2½
8 lbs of uncut straw ..................... 0  6
                                                    -------
                                                     1  2

             Colliery Horses.
                                                         s.  d.
8 lbs of hay and 8 lbs of straw, cut ... 0  5½
6 lbs of carrots ................................ 0  2½
12 lbs of oats .................................. 1  0
14 lbs steamed straw ....................... 0  2½
                                                        -------
                                                         1  11

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End of horse feeding!

Petra


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