Show > < = I roninn roil JlOJlSES AX DSDUK PREJUDICE AOAINSTIT A IIORSEJtASa VIEWS There seems to be quite a d I def trace of opinion among horsemen as to the value of corn folder as a food I for horses A leading farm paper reccntlycautionod its ItSLlersJlahL t I feeding horses on cornstalk stating that they would l make the horses coats rough Mr C W Williams I i the breeder and trainer of Axtell hays that his wonderful colt had little lit-tle bedded lalks for rough fod1 1 der during nearly two winters He rays he considers cornstalks tho best rough fodder he can get for colts Tho writer once worked for a farmer who never cut any hay Hb cattle and horses never tad any fodder but cured com stalks The animals I I I way look well and the horses did their full share of work Tine writer now has two horses that have very little to do and are not heavily feds One of them prefers cornstalk to hay while the other runs down if fed on stalks without hay It is 1 an I old horse and can not handle line stalks as well as a younger hone I would We find thnt this prejudice against corn stalk for 1I0rotS Is quilt I common among a class of farmer Except In the case of old horses with poor teeth we do not think the prejudice pre-judice is Just In fact It Ecems reasonable reason-able that n moderate supply of well cured flails will prove beneficial to a horse 111 winter and nil with old hones if the stalks could te cut and moistened with hot wall tin 3 would rove valuable A good deal of the objection to stalks for hlrt I may lie traced to the fact that the I grain of the corn U I fed with tin1 stalks This makes an lllbalanced ration When stalks are fed gin I oats and wheatbran I |