Show HORSES FOND OF BEER brewery nags insist on their share of firm s product fully one halt of the horses by the brewers of washington said a fat and ruddy driver of one of the big wagons are beer drinkers and there are forsea belonging to our company which will not leave the delivery yards until they have had their bucket of beer in the morning and at lunch time they have acquired a taste for the beverage and they re fuse to do their work until they have been supplied now I 1 say the horses acquired a taste for beer but I 1 guess I 1 am wrong about that for it Is my candid ion that horses naturally love beer they seem to have the same taste for it that hogs have tor mash and beer from the still houses it Is a well known fact that in run ning down and locating illicit stills in the mountain districts the revenue officers are frequently aided in their work by watching the hogs the razor backs sniffing the mash for a dis tance of two miles our horses fatten on beer and it Is a noticeable fact that the ones drinking the most beer keep in the best physical condition and can do the most hard driving the horses draw the line on stale beer and one of them will have to be powerful dry in the throat before he will drink it but give him a bucket of fresh beer and it will soon disappear and he will neigh for more drivers helpers and horses are al lowed a liberal supply of the fluid by the company and I 1 would do without my mugs before I 1 would see my horses go thirsty washington post |