66 Kei'okt of TJii: Dkpaut.mkxt or Animal Husbandry ok the 



evidence of the accuracy of these unusual properties is furnished 

 save the usual list of testimonials, the reliability of v^rliich may be 

 judged in the light of the fact that some of the most absurd imr 

 positions ever perpetrated on the public have been abundantly 

 approved by similar evidence. Yeai-s ago, Lawes & Gilbert con- 

 demned patent foods at the prices for which they are sold, and 

 important experiments conducted in recent years have not fur- 

 nished the least justification of their purchase by stockmen. 

 Fanners may accept with perfect confidence this statement, viz.: 

 that there are no nutritive properties, compounds or influences yet 

 discovered which are not possessed by the common feeding stuffs, 

 neither is it possible to increase for well animals the nutritive 

 effect of protein and carbohydrates by associating with them any 

 compounds or drugs whatever. 



As to the medicinal value of condiniental foods, it may be safely 

 asserted that well animals, properly fed, need no medicine, and 

 sick animals should receive treatment specifically adapted to their 

 ailments. Universal preventives and curealls of diseases are un- 

 knowm and are believed in only by those who are ignorantly cred- 

 ulous. More than this, many of the constituents of condimental 

 foods have no recognized curative A'alue. 



But notwithstanding all that has been said again and again to 

 the farming public concerning condimental foods, they still find a 

 sale. Kot less than fifteen brands have been examined at this 

 Station during the past two years, all of wliicli were found in the 

 New York markets. Their analyses from a food standpoint follow. 



Samples of Patent Foods Collected in New York During 1898 and 1899. 



Station 

 number. 



Sample: Where 

 collected. 



Price per 

 pound. 



445 . . Corning 



446 . . Corning $0 20 



448 . . Hornellsville 0.5 



450.. Hornellsville 25 



Hornellsville 07 1-3 



Canisteo 25 



457 . . Dansville 18 



458. . Dansville 10 1-2 



451. 

 4,56. 



Station 

 number. 



Sample: Where 

 CO lected. 



Price per 

 pound 



459. 

 460. 

 461 . 

 462. 

 485 . 

 502. 

 539.. 



Dansville $0 13 1-3 



Mt. Morris 06 1-4 



Mt. Morris 10 



Buffalo 50 



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