The structure of the horse does not seem adapted to the assimilation of animal food. But some seem to have no dislike to it; and it is well to know that it may, to a certain extent, supply the place of grain. I have seen them lick blood repeatedly and greedily. Bracy Clark says he has "seen a well-attested account in a magazine, of a colt that was in the habit of visiting a pantry window which looked into his paddock, and of stealing and eating mutton, beef, veal, and poultry. Pork he seemed to reject. In the East Indies, meat boiled to rags, to which is added some kinds of grain and butter, is made into balls and forced down the horse's throat. - Carpenter's Introduc. to the Wars of India. Also sheep's heads during a campaign are boiled for horses in that country."¶

"While at the stable of Mr. Mellings, of Wakefield, the groom would let me see a flesh-eating horse. He brought about a pound of roasted beef and as much raw bacon, which he warmed. I took away the horse, while the groom put the meat in one corner of the manger, and a feed of oats in the other. I put in the horse and directed his nose to the oats, out he darted from that to the bacon, which he greedily do-toured. He then ate his oats. The groom said this horse could finish the bone of a leg of mutton in a few minutes, and that roasted meat was his favorite dish."* The wealthy people of Medjid frequently give flesh to their horses, raw as well as boiled, together with all the offals of the table. "I knew a man at Hamah, in Syria, who assured me that he had often given his horses washed meat after a journey, to make them endure it with greater facility. The same person related to me, that, apprehensive of the governor of the town taking a liking to his favorite horse, he fed it for a fortnight entirely on roasted pork, which raised its mettle to such a height that it became absolutely unmanageable, and could no longer be an object of desire to the governor."†

* Blaine's Vet. Outlines, p. 94. London, 1832. †Comp. Grazier, p. 529. 1833. ‡ Past and Present State of the English Racer. Hookham. 1836. ¶ Clarke, Pharmacop. Equina. London, 1833.

Fish

" In Iceland, it is stated by Buffon, that dried fish is made the food of horses; and my friend William Bullock, senior, lately informed me that he saw them in the same practice in Norway ."‡