Feeding grain to horses pre 1900s
"But the ox has only to have 3V2 sheaves of oats per week" Walter of Henly. https://archive.org/details/thomasjeffferson00edwi_0/page/n25/mode/1up?view=theater (page xxii)
- https://blog.biostarus.com/feeding-horses-1800s/
- https://blog.biostarus.com/feeding-horses-1856/
- https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/4
- "And the horse ... is obliged to have the sixth part of a bushel of oats every night," wrote Walter of Henley, the mid-thirteenth-century commentator, who remained the best authority on English agriculture until the time of Fitzherbert, https://archive.org/details/thomasjeffferson00edwi_0/page/n24/mode/1up?view=theater (page xxi)
"But the ox has only to have 3V2 sheaves of oats per week" Walter of Henly. https://archive.org/details/thomasjeffferson00edwi_0/page/n25/mode/1up?view=theater (page xxii)