Maize has been extensively used for many years as an article of horse food, and there are now few large studs for which it does not form a portion of the provender. Along with hay, it will maintain cart-horses in fair condition, but it is too deficient in nitrogenous constituents to form a typical horse food, and to rectify this deficiency there should always be given along with it a certain proportion of pease or beans. By giving the maize and beans in the right proportions, a mixture can be made possessing a similar nutritive ratio to oats, and this may, with impunity, be substituted for oats in the food of mature horses, but not for that of young growing animals, for which it would not possess a sufficient proportion of ash constituents.

Maize has been accused of causing grease, but such an accusation is entirely unsupported by facts, and it simply remains as a remnant of the prejudice which attended the introduction of maize as a horse food in this country.

There has only been one objection of any weight made against its use, which is that when maize is used alone, and more particularly new maize, the faeces are less firm than normal, and possess a somewhat unpleasant smell; but when old corn is combined with beans and oats, or barley, in due proportions, it gives admirable results, and the offensive character of the faeces practically disappears.

There are several varieties of maize in use, recognized by their colour, as yellow and white, and by their shape, as flat corn, large round, and small round, in addition to which each possesses a distinctive name, according to the place from which it is obtained, such as States, Galatz, La Plata, etc.

In practice we find it is immaterial which is used, providing the selected variety is old, sound, perfect corn, and so long as it has these qualities price may with impunity control the selection.