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Show Grain Fed To Idle Stock Is Wasted Idle saddle horses and idle farm work stock need no grain, George R. Henderson, Utah State Extension livestock specialist, declared de-clared today. ' . "Both pleasure and work horses hors-es that are idle do just as well on roughage only, without any grain," Mr. Henderson said. "Idle horses can be very satisfactorily satis-factorily wintered on roughage alone." , . - , If such feeds as oat straw, fodder, fod-der, and poor quality hay are used an allowance of good quality qual-ity hay, preferably a legume hay, should be included, sufficient suffici-ent to supply the anima s, requirements re-quirements for protein, calcium, phosphorus, and vitamins, he advised. ad-vised. , . . ,fief "With riding tu". fx posses, and other such units organized or-ganized all over the state, the horse population of Utah is increasing." in-creasing." he reported Horses eat nearly six per cent of all the erain fed to livestock in tne ffate If horse owners would realize re-alize that idle stock do just as well on roughage alone, it would be a help in conserving grain, which is badly needed I fr human hu-man consumption in Europe. |