HORSES' RATIONS.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I was glad to see a letter in your paper last week re the above. I fully endorse what "C. H." -says on the subject, and think it would be far kinder to increase the horse rations before giving us whiter bread. It is really heart-breaking in our large towns particularly to see the emaciated condition of beasts of burden, underfed and overloaded and driven by inexperienced drivers. I hope this subject will be taken nn by your readers, and that you will endeavour to help. It is really pathetic to see these honest toilers overloaded, working long hours day after day— some so old and weak they can hardly struggle on, neglected and underfed, and nothing done for them. As a nation we have always been proud, and rightly so, of our horses, and I suppose we had the best in the world, from the thoroughbred down to the cart- horse. Horses have not the variety of food that we have, and if we cannot get one thing we can make it up with something else. I do not think we have any cause for eomplaint in the rations we have been allowed. Most people seem to agree on that. So before these are increased I hope the horse will be allowed a more ample fare, and something be done to arrest what is now a national
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