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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...the Horse may employ in resting, which is far inore important for the well-being of the / animal than even a double ration of food. ON GORSE, FURZE, OR WHIN, As Food for Horses and Cows. The furze is a well-known indigenous shrub, growing abundantly on light. soils and elevated situations: scarcely any plant is more brilliant, when in blossom--at the same time it exhales a very delightful odour. Wheii Linnaeus, the great naturalist, first beheld this plant in blossom in this country, he is said to have fallen upon his knees and offered up a prayer of thanksgiving to the Great Author of Nature for having permitted him to see it. Furze as a Green Food for Cattle. For this purpose the shoots should not be more than six. months old. They require to be passed between rollers or beaten by a mallet, to bruise the ligneous parts and the thorns thereof.--A Hand-machine for that purpose has been brought out by MARY WEnLA1_E 8: Co. Gorse has been tried in this way by a number of agricul '? How many Horse-masters in the Metropolis ive half-a-bushel per day, and some even more! Only fancy 8 to 10 fee s of whole oats per day! which if bruised would make 20 quartems, or nearly so. The corn-dealer and the groom do not lose by it, either at Christmas oraquarterly, when the corn is ordered in or settled for.--En1ron. turists, and found a highly nutritive food for Cows, Horses, and Oxen, viz., by R. Spooner, Esq., M.P. (see p. 27). Horses are exceedingly fond of it, and they eat it as readily as hay; it should be used soon after it is bruised. One to two bushels, with a proper allowance of hay or straw cut into chafi-, have been found to be sufficient for three Horses for a day, performing the same labour, as with com! Cows that are fed upon it, will yield...