. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BRBBDEK AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, June 10, 1916. THE FARM POPULARITY OF GRAIN HAY. [Pac. Rural Press.] The fact has been noted that the only enduring opposition to hay made from "grains cut green" -was put up by the supply experts of the U. S. Army, and this existed until very re- cently. When the Spanish war and the occupation of the Philippines made it necessary to ship hay across the Pa- cific it took some effort by our con- gressmen to get Pacific Coast contrac- tors a chance to file bids and longer still to admit the "grains cut green&quo
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BRBBDEK AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, June 10, 1916. THE FARM POPULARITY OF GRAIN HAY. [Pac. Rural Press.] The fact has been noted that the only enduring opposition to hay made from "grains cut green" -was put up by the supply experts of the U. S. Army, and this existed until very re- cently. When the Spanish war and the occupation of the Philippines made it necessary to ship hay across the Pa- cific it took some effort by our con- gressmen to get Pacific Coast contrac- tors a chance to file bids and longer still to admit the "grains cut green" to the place occupied by the sainted Timothy on the army schedules, and â we understand that oat and even bar- ley hay are now admissible to the gov- ernment mule menu. We mention this fact to emphasize the contrast between the conservatism of the army and the ready acceptance of grain hay by the California pioneers. They saw what the Mexicans did with horses and the "grain cut green" which they used for hay and had no doubt of their quality. But the more specific demonstration came later when the race-horse mag- nates put a test on the "efficiency" of Ealifornia grain hay and stopped at no expenditure to secure the advan- tage of it. Joseph Cairn Simpson, who was probably the greatest equine- philosopher of the last century, was firmly convinced that the supremacy of California horses, which was so clearly demonstrated a few decades ago, was due in good part to the cli- mate and the feed, and he used to like to point to the practice of expert horse men as supporting his contention. In one of a series of articles for the Sun- set Magazine in 1901 Mr. Simpson gave these facts: "A test between timothy hay im- ported from Oregon and wheat hay of California resulted in a decided preference for the latter. That esti- mate has been endorsed by many train- ers from the East. Hickok, Marvin, Goldsmith and Salisbury, after one trip east with trotters, when e
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