Show BREWERS HORSES they are i rule fat from ellal brewery groin did you ever see a thin square cadaverous bony horse pulling a brewery wagon probably not in new york though such a thing could happen though it would not pass without notice the reason for it is simple says the new york sun these horses arc fed on what is known as brewers grain the residue of the brewing process a nourishing but product of the brewery when the labor of beer making is ended gallons of these grains in liquid form are poured into closed wagons and carted to stables where they are fed to the horses they are fattening and give brewery cart horses that rotundity which is the marvel of many who do not understand the true cause of it it is estimated that nearly seventy per cent of brewers grains are water and unavailable for transport except at large expense for considerable distance and more than this they spoil easily so must be used at once as they come from the brewery hot and steaming in some places especially out of new york these brewers grains are fed to cattle with very good result but in this city the supply is taken up chiefly in the stables of the largest breweries very few persons have stopped to compute the extent to which horses are in alie brewery business the largest of the city breweries has two hundred and fifty hordes constantly in use in delivering kegs of beer to customers distributed about new york city and brooklyn the next largest has two hundred horses and so on down the liet the total number of brewery horses in the city footing up five thousand |