The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1898-12-21
BAD DIET FOX HORSES,
Stale Bread win Not Do as Regu.
lar Fare.
The Failure Of Brooklyn Bakers
Plan for Uslng surplus Loavcs-
Some Facts for stock
Feeders.


One day man was standing along
side q big furnace door in n bakery
where tons Of bread is mixed and baked
daily. AS 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, and burning WIS
the cheapest way OF disposing OF thcri
The idea came TO him of selling The
bread to Long Island farmers 10 feed
TO pigs and chickens. Some OF 1t is
now disposed Of in this way, but lot
remained. Then another idea occurred
~ him.
lie had observed time and again that
pct horses enjoyed crust from tne
hands of their masters and mistresscs
lie read horse and stock books and
found considerable information for
stock-owncrs. particularly horse-own-
crs, on the dcsirability of cooked food
IL printed the claims Of Chicago
cooked grain conecIn. which said that
cooked and ground feed was much
more paatable than the uncookcd,
being much easier TO masticatc. The
hard. dry covering Of grain, when
steamed and ground, becomes as nutri-
tious as other parts. and the entire
grain Is digcstcd. thus saving 90 or 30
per cent. of the grain, and also much
energy. The proper care Of a horses
stomach means a good healthy horse
in most eases, and good, easily digested
food mems n healthy stomach. Then
too, he learned that Robert Bonner L.
accustomed 10 give his horses hot
supper at nine o'clock in the evening
supper OF Two quarts OF boiled oats
Mr.. Ronncr's horses get two quarts Of
oats At each feeding, and the feelings
are al five o'clock in the morning, then
nine, then one, and at five o'clock p. M
ten pounds OF hay for each horse Then
comes the hot supper. The German
army horses had long been eating
cooked food, and these horses hal
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, il stewed
oats, and hot bran mash, or shorts and
hay tea were so good for horses. why
couldn't bread be fed TO them? II
could he and was. The last was given
in John Shultzc's bakery stables over
in Brooklyn a short time ago. Brcal
was not a success so far as horse feed
ing went. Dry bread, with its carbonic
acid gas, had the same effect on horses
that green apples have on small boys.
Some OF the horses positively refused
TO cat the stuff, and those that did eat
II 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 the
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 onts and hay.
Potatoes, carrots and other roots are
fed TO horses for change. Even tn,
swell horses of rich people get the
plebeian dishes, little better in quail
W l'lhdl'S' u'inS lINt VI uiulu anu Ut
least year old, but save for this diff
ference the food is the same, and the
horses would not like any change.
A. G. Bennett, who Is an expert In the
matter of horses, says that work horses
have got TO have oats-meaning by
work horses all that go into harness
Otherwise the horses break down under
the strain Tho farmer WIN has rrnge-
fed horses cannot get the same work
out OF them as the man who feeds his
horses on oats.--N. y. sun