Mixed Hay For Horses

The New York Times thinks the prevailing favor of titnothy alone for feeding horses is not a wise one. The hay is not so abundaat aud not so nutritious, especially for hard working horses, whose muscle Í3 eonstantly used and exhausted in tiresomo exertion. Thia muscular waste exhausts the system of it3 nitrogenous elements, which pass off as urea fornied by the decomposition oi muscular fiber in the system of a hard working animal. Timothy hay alone is deficiënt in nitrogen, having but 9} per cent, of nitrogenous matter, while clover hay has 15 p?r cent., and mixed timothy and clover has 12J per cent. Thus the mixed hay has about one-third more of the nitrogenous elements of the food than the clear timothy, and this makes the differeuce of nineteen cents per 100 pounds in the actual feeding valué of thetwo kinds of hay in favor of the mixture. The general popularity of the timothy hay i -i undoubtedly due to a prejudice against the clover, which would certaiuly be removed by actual test and expericncs.