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FEED BRADLEY HORSES ROLLED OATS rcincr Harmons Story of How He Invented the Feed to Save the Sire Candlemas LEXINGTON Ky April lit William Hurley carries as a part of his stable equipment a one and onehalf horsepower gasoline engine and a mill for rolling oats so that all of the oats his horses ot are freshly and reliably crushed each day just be ¬ fore feeding time As might supposed the oats thus treated are more easily digested During the crushing period at the Hurley stable yesterday afternoon Tom Harmon trainer of the Kentucky division of the Larry Uaterbury stable said as he watched the operation Do you know that I am the first nian in this section of the country and perhaps in all of the country who ever fed rolled oats to horses It is a fart he continued it was the tirst year that I looked after the stallion Can ¬ dlemas at Ilmondorf Candlemas had indigestion so badly that his nsfiilness had become impaired and Mr Haggin had made up his mind that he had just about reached the end of his days daysI I came inlo Lexington and consulted a local feed dealer alHiitt crushed oats He got a set of of rollers and rigged them up lint it was several days before he was able after much experimenting to jet ots rolled out satisfactorily Candlemas began to improve almost immediately and that be ¬ came one oC his best seasons You should have patented the idea remarked a bystander Per ¬ haps from a financial point of view I should have replied Harmon for many a man has since made much money out of rolled oats but I wasnt thinking almut money I was thinking about getting feed that would prolong1 Candlemas days and restore bis usefulness All of which is by way of further illustration of the utter lack of selfishness and the spirit of generosity one finds in so many horse ¬ men and men of the turf
