The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-10-30
MoLASSES AS A HORSE MEDl
CINE.

Not Only Cheaper Food, but It Fat
tens Thin Horses and Makes Sick
Ones WE'LL
Scientific tests in substituting mo-
lasses for oats and other cereals in feed
ing horses have yielded surprising re-
suits. 1t is now definitely established
that as horse diet there is magic in
molasses. With this syrup on his bill
of fare the horse rapidly takes on solid
weight, develops prodigiously in mus
cular energy, grows asglossy coat and
enjoys uninterrupted health. For these
animals, therefore, molasses is declared
to be both tonic and health food. In
addition to the many desirable results,
a molasses diet reduces the cost of horse
maintenance over twenty-five per cent.
For scientific experimentation two
abject and unthrifty animals were Sc
lected. One weighed 900 pounds, the
other $40. No preparation was made
for the sudden change of diet but in
place of the usual allowance of hay and
oats the horses were given, three times
day, one quart of molasses diluted
with three quarts of water and mixed
with five pounds of cut hay. A mar
yelous improvement in the animals re-
suited. In two weeks one gained forty
pounds in weight, the other forty five.
In four weeks from the beginning of
the molasses diet horse No 1 gained
ninety-five pounds and horse No 2 one
hundred and two pounds.
Both of these horses were shedding
their coats, and after six weeks of mo-
lasses regime their new coats were
glossy and luxuriant. Horse No. at
the end of that period weighed 1,075
pounds and No. 2, 1,0S6 pounds. All
symptoms of decrepitude disappeared.
At the termination of the six weeks ex
pertinent the animal could not be rec
ognized as the forlorn creatures with
which the tests had been begun In
place of those jaded specimens there
were led forth from the stables two fine
horses, the scientists describing them to
be full of play, life and energy" The
animals are now employed proftably by
commercial firms.
These and other tests are extending
the use of molasses as food for horses.
Firms employing many horses in the
hardest kind of contract and truck work
are discovering that the animals will
perform more service and remain in
better condition on a diet of molasses
than when fed the choicest and most
liberal allowance of cereals. In the
United States Artillery Corps there are
enthusiastic champions of molasses as
a horse diet, and horses in the armies of
France, Russia Germany and Austria
are being fed on molasses with very
satisfactory results.
Quite recently tests were conducted
in the United States to determine what
efficacy molasses might have in restor-
ing invalid horses to health. A brown
gelding, greatly reduced as the result of
severe accident, and lame and all
ing truck horse were selected At the
beginning of the experiments the geld
ING weighed 1850 pounds and the truck
horse, 1, 140 pounds. Fed on diet con-
sisting chiefly of molasses the invalid
horses improved with marked rapidity.
In fifteen days the gelding weighed
1890 pounds, having gained seventy
pounds. In that same period the sick
truck horse gained sixty pounds. The
total gain of the gelding in one month
was 200 pounds and of the truck horse
40 pounds.
The conclusions that eminent special
lists have arrived at is that good mo-
lasses is not only fatteningand energy
producing diet for horses, but that in
many cases it will restore ailing ami
mails to health. The cost is an import
ant consideration. One quart of mo-
lasses at three cents takes the place Of
from three to four quarts of the best
quality of oats at from four and half
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