When a number of articles having different properties are to be mingled together, some trouble must be taken to mix them equally. I often see beans, barley, bran, and chaff, thrown into a bucket hardly large enough to contain them. An attempt is always made to stir them up and mingle one with another; but either from the laziness of the man, or from the want of proper utensils, the attempt frequently fails. Hence some of the horses are fed on that which is too rich, and they are surfeited, while others receive little but chaff, and are starved. The mixing vessel ought to be large enough to hold double the quantity ever put into it.

The whole of each article ought not to be put in at once. Suppose boiled beans, boiled barley chaff, and roots, or bran, are to be mixed; the beans, barley, and roots, are boiled to gether; a measure of chaff is thrown into the tub, the*; i measure of the boiled food, then a measure of bran, and lastly a measure of the boiled liquor. These are well mingled by means of a wooden spade; another measure of each article is then added, and the whole again incorporated together. In this way the man proceeds, adding the ingredients to each other in small quantities, and mixing them thoroughly at each addition, till a quantity taken from one part of the vessel is quite the same as a quantity taken from any other part of it.

In mixing dry grain with chair, the same plan is to be followed. If seven bushels of chaff, one of barley, one of beans, and five of oats, are to be mingled together, mix the grain and pulse first, in six or seven layers, and toss them to • gether with a wooden shovel; then mix one bushel of chaft with one of the mixed grain; in another place mix a like quantity, and after all is divided in this manner into seven parcels, each containing an equal quantity of each article, throw the whole into one heap, and toss it over two or three times. Unless the ingredients be thoroughly incorporated, the horses can not be equally served. There is error in mixing very much, and also in mixing very little. The man may soon discover in what quantities he can manage to make the most equal mass.