text:  The economy of _prepared_ food is ably treated of and we select the following passage as containing at once sound theoretical and important practical truths: "It appears at first sight somewhat surprising that the idea of preparing food for farm-horses should only have been recently acted on; but I have no doubt that the practice of the turf and of the road of maintaining horses on large quantities of oats and dry ryegrass hay has had a powerful influence in retaining it on farms