On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:47:59 +0000, JNugent
wrote:

Ian Dalziel wrote:
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:54:18 +0000, JNugent
wrote:

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"feed the horses of or belonging to any hackney carriage in any street,
road or common passage, save only with corn out of a bag, or with hay
which he shall hold or deliver with his hands".

snip

Rather there was a prohibition on feeding a cab-horse except by handing straw direct to
the animal or by feeding it "corn from a bag" whilst on the highway.


You've been on that IAM course, haven't you?

The one where you learn that wisps of straw will tell you there's a
hay wagon round the corner?

Horses can't eat straw.

Mea culpa.

I was brought up in the middle of a big city and although I remember
horses on the streets readily enough, I don't know much about their
dietary habits or about the differences (if any) between hay and straw.

Heh.

Hay is cut grass, straw is corn stalks. Cattle can digest straw - just
- but horses can't.

That's off the top of my head, so I could be wrong - but the same
thing they ain't.

--

Ian D