No. 7. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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barley and bran having been added 2 parts of a manufactured con- 

 dimental food containing aromatic, carminative substances. At the 

 end of four weeks, each lot had made the same gain in weight; but 

 the lot with the condimental food required 400 pounds of food to 

 produce 100 pounds of increase; tlie lot fed on the plain mash only 

 393 pounds. The use of the condimental food resulted in an entire 

 loss of its cost and possibly of some of that of the other food. 



Several years later, a second experiment was made in which 

 "sheep were fed upon Thorley's food, a much advertised condimental 

 mixture of English preparation. In this experiment, 4 lots of 5 

 sheep each were used. Lot I received one-half pound linseed cake, 

 one pound clover-hay chaff and all the Swedish turnips they would 

 eat; Lot 2, the same except that one-half pound cottonseed cake re- 

 placed the linseed cake; while Lots 2 and 4 were fed like 1 and 3 

 respectively, except that one-fourth of the cake-meal was replaced 

 by an equal weight of Thorley's food, as he recommended. The ex- 

 periment lasted 28 weeks. The results may be summarized as fol- 

 lows : 



Furthermore, the manure from the condimental food was less 

 valuable. The balance-sheet shows a balance against the linseed 

 lot fed with vs. without condiment, of L.I., 12.6 on the food, and 2s. 

 lOd. on the manure, total, L.I., 15.4; against the cottonseed lot fed 

 with vs. without condiment, on the food L. 1., 13.11; on the manure, 4s. 

 lid., total L. 1., 18.10. 



The Vermont Station (R. 1894, 1501) reports a test with nutritone, 

 a condimental food containing linseed meal, cereals, fenugreek, char- 

 coal, sulphur and salt. The test was made upon seven Jersey fresh 

 cows, each receiving 15 pounds mixed hay, 3 pounds corn, 3 pounds 

 bran, 2 pounds oats, 2 pounds gluten meal, 1 pound malt sprouts. 

 The experiment lasted 10 weeks; in three periods, the prescribed 

 daily addition of 2 tablespoonfuls of nutritone was made to the 

 ration; in a fourth period, an equal quantity of linseed meal replaced 

 the nutritone. The results for the respective two-week periods 

 were: 



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