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Attention is called to tiie low protein content of certain feeds 

 whicLi are refuses from starch manufacture. These are not unlike 

 com meal in the proportion of their constituents and should not 

 be confounded with gluten meals and feeds. 



The composition of clover hay is not modified by grinding. So 

 long as cut clover hay is fed successfully to poultry the advantage 

 of paying from $20 to $30 or more per ton for hiaving it ground is 



not clear. 



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CONDIMENTAL FOODS. 



There is found very prevalent in our markets a class of sub- 

 stances bearing the term " food " that are noted chiefly for being 

 sold in small packages at remarkable prices, on the strength of 

 claims which are sometimes startling even in this time of daily 

 miracles as set forth in the advertising coluimns of our newspapers. 

 These proprietary wonders are usually marvelous both in their 

 nutritive and th^eir healing effects, for if one may believe the 

 statements concerning some of them, they are remarkably loaded 

 with nutritive energy and the diseases they will not cure would 

 be highly interesting to the veterinarian as pathological novel- 

 ties. It is most surprising to find after being told that the effect 

 of these " foods " is to enrich milk, produce bovine obesity with 

 remarkable rapidity and banish disease, that so far no one of them 

 has been examined that is not made up largely of some common 

 grain product mixed mth more or less of the commonest of 

 drugs and other substances having little curative value, nearly 

 all of which of any merit whatever may be :6ound on the pantry 

 shelf or in the horse stable of many farms. It is strange, too, that 

 farmers h;ave not long ago discovered for themselves, if it is true, 

 that when bran or some other common feeding stuff is com- 

 pounded with the equally common charcoal, salt, sulphur, salt- 

 petre, fenugTeek, etc., the nutritive power of the food is greatly 

 enhanced and the drug takes on unheard of curative properties. 

 Kevertheless we are asked to believe that such is the case. No 



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