THE FEEDING OF HORSES.
[To THE EDITOR CT TES " SPECTATOR."] Sun—In view of the food restrictions and high prices which are :bringing hunger to the homes and children of the working classes and serious privations to professional and middle classes, is it still a fact that there are thousands of horses still kept in training, in England and Ireland, whose daily ration is from one and a half to two stone of oats? The allowance of oats for the' military horses is about nine pounds per day, and surely while oats and wheat are so scares no horse in the country should get more, except those doing heavy agricultural or lorry work.
I appreciate the difficulties of turning thoroughbreds back to the simple life, but I do not think the horses would suffer by being out on grass in the daytime if comfortably housed and fed at night, and in this instance it seems to be the welfare of race- horses against the welfare of working and hard-worked human
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