Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-20 | Page 7 | Indian Ponies Fed Chickens

INDIAN PONIES I FED CHjCKENS; ! Ogden Man Takes Shipment Of Broncs to Petaluma Chicken Ranches Wiry broncs and Indian ponies, famed as one of the principal factors fac-tors in the development of the west, are meeting the Ignoble fato of fur- ntahlng feed for California chickens, according to Frank C. Irwin, 2 7 S 2 Lincoln avenue, s livestock deal i who returned yesterday from Petaluma, Peta-luma, where he sold seventeen carloads of horses formerly belonging to the Bannock Indians ol Idaho In olden days, the mustangs, such' as made up Brwin's shlprnont, made history, some of the moet eln.slc of west, in tales being centered about I the Indian cayueos, their endurance,! and the part they played in maklnc the wertern country a fit place to live In. The pony express depended upon, horseB, while cattlemen found the e(ulne species absolutely necessary for their needs. With the- passing of the horse, and the greater use of automobiles thousands thous-ands of old. decrepit animals, too old' to be used In active work and good only as reminders of happier days for horses, huve been consuming tons of valuable- foodstuffs. The general tcndenc of owners of such horses Is to sell them for what they an get. Erwln stated, and the horses thus disposed of are doomed for the chicken feed mill near Pflta lu ma, ('a I Mr, Brwtn said that no one- who has not seen tho chicken ranches of California Cali-fornia can form an idea of them Chickens of all varieties and sizes swarm over the landscape. Anel the horses, useless for anything else, arc ground through the mill, hide, bones, Hesh and hair, and, after being mixed with meal, are disposed of as an Ideal chicken fooel, detlared by experts to be a better producer of cks than any otlur known food for Chickens. In the shipment of rrnnes that Brwln shipped from the local stock yard) more than 600 tribal horses from the Bannock Indians in Idaho were Included.