ISTew York Agricultukal Experiment Station. 67 



Analyses of Samples of Patent Foods. 



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445. Flower city horse and cattle food. 9.27 11.29 14.37 9.70 21.0 5.12 



446. International stock food 8.13 9.92 13.88 5.68 21.9 7.91 



448. Blatchford's calf meal 7.12 5.74 26.13 4.23 22.7 4.56 



450. Nutriotone 6.90 20.17 22.19 4.94 23.5 5.13 



451. Pratts' cattle food 7.25 6.36 14.56 5.78 35.4 7.53 



456. Rochester horse and cattle food. 8.00 8.19 18.44 10.59 21.5 3.61 



457. Anglo-American food for stock. . 7.20 13.28 15.50 7.86 25.8 4.85 



458. Climax food 7.24 21.09 9.94 4.14 17.2 22.53* 



459. Colonial stock food 7.28 14.51 9.81 11.99 28.8 2.54 



460. Royal stock food 5.56 44.07 11.25 9.73 13.7 3.52 



461. Baums' horse and stock food 8.05 10.87 27.81 13.00 9.2 7.75 



462. Chas. Marvin stock food 8.26 5.97 30.94 10.63 18.2 4.28 



485. Triplex stock food 7.10 12.05 15.31 6.31 28.8 5.66 



502. Champion horse and cattle food. 8.99 14.40 10.69 4.74 41.2 4.68 



539. Wilbur's seed meal 7.13 12.16 20.00 8.18 20.9 5.63 



In these mixtures were found as the principal constituent some 

 common feeding stuff like bran or other wheat offals, corn offals, 

 linseed meal, and so on. The special ingredients added ostensibly 

 for medicinal effect, were found to include charcoal.. fe»ugreek, 

 gentian, sulphur, salt, saltpeter, sodium sulphate, iron compounds 

 and pepper. 



Particular attention is called to the prices at which these 

 " foods " are sold. Thie range is from $100 to $500 per ton, which 

 is at least from $70 to $470 per ton more than the materials 

 are worth for food purposes. It may be clauned, as some of the 

 manufacturers urge, that these mixtures should be regarded as 

 medicines. Even if this is true the farmor who wishes to ad- 

 minister any of these common substances to his animals can do so 

 at a small fraction of their cost in condimentnl foods by purchasing 

 them as drugs and then mixing them with the grain ration as he 

 wishes. For the promoters of these mixtures to claim that they 

 have any knowledge of compounds and compounding not common 

 to veterinary medicine is charlatanism in it.'' most offensive form. 



Blatchford's calf meal is ndvpvtised as a food of great value. 



Mostly sulphur. 



