The shell which is separated from wheat and oats in thrashing is often given to farm-horses. It seems to be very poor stuff. It looks as if it contained no nutriment, yet it may serve to divide the grain, to make the horse masticate it, and to prevent him from swallowing it too hurriedly. In this way it may so far supply the place of cut fodder. But the barn chaff is usually mingled with the boiled food, and if the articles be very soft, the chaff may give them consistence, but it does little more. The coving chaff of beans is said to form a very good manger food.