Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-11-12
srALK BREAD ron HORSES.


- = Regular pies II WIN Not
Hunlre.
One day q man WA standing along
aide a big furnace door In q bakery
whore tons Of bread h mixed and baked
daily. Az he stood there he meditated,
and well he might, for loavcs Of bread
were being thrown into the furnace.
They were stale loaves which had been
returned by dealers. ai,d burning was
the cheapest way Of disposlng Of them.
Tho idea came TO him Of selling the
bread 10 Long Island farmers 10 feed
90 pigs and chickens. Sclae Of Il ls
now disposed Of IN this way, but q lot
remained. Then another idea occurred
70 him.
He had observed time and again that
pet horses enjoyed a crust from the
hands Of their masters and mistresses.
He read horse and stock books and
found considerable information for
stock-owners. particularly horse-own-
era, on the desirability Of cooked food.
II printed the claims Of a Chicago
cooked grain concern, which said TINT
cooked and ground feed was much
more palatable than the uncooked,
being much easier to masticato. The
hard, dry covering Of grain, when
steamed and ground, becomes az nutri-
tious as other parts, and the entire
grain is digested, thus saving 30 or 30
per cent. Of the grain, and also much
energy. The proper care Of q horses
stomach means a good healthy horse
in most cases, and good, easily digested
food means a healthy stomach. Then,
too, he learned that Robert Bonner II
accustomed 10 give his horses q hot
supper at nine o'clock In the evening
O supper OF two quarts Of boiled oats.
Mr., Bonner's horses get two quarts Of
oats at each feeding, and the feelings
are nj FIVE o'clock in the morning, then
nine, then one, and at Ave o'clock p. m.
ten pounds Of hay for each horse. Then
comes the hot ripper. The German
army horses had long been eating
cooked food, and these horses had
waved fat and strong. like porridge fed
giants. The German army horses are
giants In the horse line since they have
had cooked food.
Now, the man reasoned, II stewed
oats, and hot bran mash. or shorts and
hay tea were so good for horses, why
couldn't bread pc fed &c them7 II
could be and was. The last wss given
iu John Shultze's bakery stables over
In brooklyn a short time ago. Brea1
WINS not n success so far as horse feed
ing went. Dry bread. with it's carbonic
acid gas, had the same effect on horses
that green apples have on small boys.
Some Of the horses positively refused
to eat the stuff, and those thnt did eht
Il suffered from collie. The horses were
fed on bread for about ten months in
connection with a short allowance Of
oats. hay, and cut hay. A good deal
Of the bread was disposed OF, but tho
horses were pretty nearly done for,
too. They were weak and detected.
and in spite of fine grooming looked
miserable, and they haven't got over
the effect of the bread diet yet, al
though they are picking up now on the
regulation oats and hay.
Potatoes, carrots and other roots are
fed TO horses for a change. Esen thl
swell horses of rich people get the
plebeian dishes, a little better in quail
~, perhaps, being free of mold and nj
least a year old, but saw for this diff
ference the food is the same, and the
horses would not like any change.
A. @. Bennett, who is an expert in the
matter Of horses, says that work horses
have got 20 have oats--meaning by
work horses all that go into harness.
Otherwise the horses break down under
the strain. The farmer who has grass-
fed horses cannot get the same work
out OF them as the man who feeds his
horses on oats.-N. Y. Sun.