The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-10-15
BAD DIET FOB HORSES.
stale Bread WIN Not Do ~ Regu-
lar Fare.
The Failure Of . Brooklyn Bakers
Plan for UsinG eurplus Looves-
0ome Facts for Stock
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One day man was standing along
side = big furnace door in bakery
where tons of bread is mixed and baked
and well he might, for loaves OF bread
were being thrown into the furnace.
They were stale leaves which had been
returned by dealers, and burning was
the cheapest way of hsposing of them.
The idea came to him of selling the
bread to Long Island farmers to feed
to pigs and chickens Some Of it is
now disposed Of in this way, but lot
remained. Then another idea occurred
to him.
He had observed time and again that
pet horses enjoyed 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-
ers, ON the desirability of cooked food.
1t printed the claims of u Chicago
cooked grain concern, which said that
cooked and ground feed was much
more palatable than the uncooked.
being much easier to masticate. The
hard, dry covering Of grain, when
steamed and ground, becomes as nutri-
tious as other parts, and the entire
grain is digested, thus saving 20 or 30
per cent. of the grain, and also much
energy. The proper care of 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 is
accustomed to give his horses hot
supper at nine o'clock in the evening
a supper of two quarts of boiled oats.
Mr.. Bonners horses get two quarts Of
oats at each feeding, and the feelings
are at five o'clock in the morning, then
nine, then one, and at five o'clock p. nj.
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 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 be fed to them? 1t
could be and was. The last was given
in John Shultze's bakery stables over
in Brooklyn short time ago. Breal
was not 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 eat the stuff, and those that did eat
It suffered from coI;c. The horses were
fed on bread for about ten months in
connection with 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 oats and hay.
Potatoes, carrots aud other roots are
fed to horses for change. Even tn,
swell horses of rich people get the
plebeian dishes, little better in quail
ty, perhaps, being free of mold and at
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. 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.