The New Bloomfield, Pa. Times

Straw as Horse Food.

I have fed many horses all winter on straw and grain—no hay—with entire satisfaction. I have even fed so with great advantage when the horses have been steadily employed at heavy work, and in other instances when they have had only occasional light road work. It has been said that nature made two animals gluttons—the horse and man. It is true of the horse. But fed on straw the horse is not likely to eat too much. The nutriment should be supplied mainly by grain, the purpose of the straw being to distend the stomach and aid the animal economy to maintain thrift otherwise than by the nutriment supplied in the straw. In taking horses from hay to straw they are likely to show uneasiness for a few days, but not long. They soon become contented and thrive just as well as when stuffed with the best of hay, and are far less likely, when idle to become injured in wind. I believe that most cases of heaves are caused directly by over eating when the horses are kept with insufficient work.

W. A. Armstrong.