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Show ! BAD DIET 10)it HOUSES. Stalo Brood Will Not Do go Regular Regu-lar Faro. Tho rnlluro of i Urooklyu Maker's Vlati for Unln 8urjliii I.ohtoh w ' Souio I'fttiln for Stook -; Feeder. One duy iv mnu was standing' alontf-side alontf-side a big furnace door in a bakery where iouU of bread is mixed and baked dally. Ah he stood there hu meditated, mid well lie might, for loaves of bread vorii being thrown into the furnaee. They were stale loaves which had been returned by dealers, and burning was the cheapest way of disposing of them. The Idea ramc to him of selling tbo bread to Long Inland farmers to feed to pigs and chickens. Some of it is now disposed of in this way, but a lot remained. Then another idea occurred Uj him. He had observed time and again that pet horses enjoyed a crust from tho hands of their masters and mistresses. He read horse and stock liooks and found considerable information for stock-owners, particularly horse-owners, on the desirability of cooked food. Jt 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 nutritious nutri-tious as other parta, nnd the entire grain is digested, thus saving 20 or HO per cent, of the grain, and also much energy. The proper care of a horse'3 stomach means a good healthy horse in most cases, and good, easily digested food means a healthy stomach. Then, too, he learned that Robert Homier is accustomed to give his horses a hot supper at nine o'clock in the evening- a supper of two quarts of boiled oats. Mr. JJonner's horses get two quarts of oats at each feeding, and the feedings are at five o'clock in the morning, then nine, then one, and at. five o'clock p. 111. ten pounds of liny for each horse. Then coinci the hot supper. The German t army horses had long been eating cooked food, and these horses had i waxed fat and strong, like porridge fed giants. The German nrrny horses an & !,, giants In the horse line since they have jv1 had cooked fodd. j Now, the man rensoncd, if stewed oats, and hot bran mash, or shorts and I ' hay tea we.ru so good for horses, why t , couldn't bread be fed to them? It j could be and was. The last was given i' in 'John Rhultzc's bakery stables over j in Brooklyn a short time ngo. Bread ! was not a success so far ns horse fced- i ingwent. Dry bread, with Its carbonic f ' acid giL, Had the same effect cm horses j 'that green npplcs have on small boys. r Sonic .of the horses jKxsitively refused to eat the stuff, and those th.it did eat it'sufTcrcd from colic. The horses were ;' fed on bread for about, ten mouths in i connection with a short allowance of oats, hay, and cut liny. A good deal ' of the bread was d!soscd of, but the horses were pretty nearly dono for, " t too. They were weak and dejected, j, j ' and in spite of fine grooming looked miserable, and they haven't got over I , t,hq effect of the bread diet yet, nl- though they ore picking up now on the regulation oats and hay. I Potatoes, carrots and other roots are p J ' fed to horses for a change. Even tho ' I . swell horses of rich people get the ?i plebeian dishes, a little better in quall- $ v y, perhaps, being free of mold und at lwist a, year old, but save for thiH dif- , forence the foot! is the panic, and the ', , horses would not like any change. a f A. Q. Bennett, who is an expert in the matter of horses, says that work horses r liave got. to liave oats meaning by -, i - work horses nil that go into harness. i it Otherwise the horses break down under j H If thu strain. The farmer who has grass- j ff fed horses cannot get. the same work J ftt out of them as the man who feeds hi ,i $S horses on oats. N. Y. Sun. |