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for economical production of pork. Standard Stock Food was used 

 with other materials in balancing the ration. The authors conclude 

 that while it is high in protein and ash it is little or no value in 

 balancing the ration, due to the fact that it is fed in such small 

 quantities. 



Snyder at the Minnesota Experiment Station,* in conducting feed- 

 ing experiments with steers to determine the digestibility of alfalfa 

 hay with other materials found that the addition of International 

 Stock Food to the ration lowered the digestibility of the other mate- 

 rials to a marked degree. 



Voelcker"^ conducted a feeding experiment with steers using a 

 ration composed of standard feeds. To one lot was added, in addition 

 to the regular ration, one ounce per day per head of a mixture made 

 up of licorice, anise seed, gentian, fenugreek, coriander, caraway, 

 cummin, and ginger. In summarizing his results he says: ''The 

 result is clearly to show that no case can be made out from it for any 

 of the virtues supposed to belong to spice and condimental foods, but 

 that steers will fatten as well and as economically on a well chosen 

 mixture of ordinary foods, i^or did it turn out that the use of condi- 

 ments enabled the steers to consume more bulky food like straw, hay 

 and chaff. 



Experiments conducted at the Vermont Experiment Station® by 

 Hills, with Jersey cows fed a normal ration to which Nutriotone had 

 been added showed that the lowest yields of milk and butter fat for 

 any period were obtained when Nutriotone was fed. 



A similar experiment conducted by Bartlett at the Maine Experi- 

 ment Station,^ with ISTutriotone showed that Nutriotone did not seem 

 to have any effect, favorable or unfavorable. 



Otis, at the Kansas Experiment Station,* conducted feeding experi- 

 ments with cows on a normal ration to determine the eflfect of using 

 Acme Stock Food and Globe Stock Food. In each case there was a 

 small gain in the butter fat produced by the lot being fed one of the 

 condimental foods, but the additional cost necessary to produce this 

 small gain is higher than the market price of butter. He concludes 

 ''The tests of these two stock foods indicate that they are worthless 

 for dairy cows accustomed to a good balanced ration." 



A practical experiment conducted by a dairy farmer to determine 

 the value of stock foods is reported in Hoard's Dairyman.® The 

 stock food not only failed to increase the milk flow, but it failed 

 utterly to arrest the falling off of the milk flow due to poorer quality 

 of silage fed during the latter part of the experiment. 



Eingerling at the Hohenheim Station, Germany,^" conducted an 



*Mlnn. Experiment Station Bulletin No. 80. 



5J. Royal Agr. Soc, England, 62 (1901) abstract by F. W. Woll In Bulletin 151, Wis., Agr. Exp. Sat. 



*8tli Annual Report Vermont Experiment Station. 



'12th Annual Report Maine Experiment Station. 



'Kansas Experiment Station Press Bulletin No. 88. 



•Vol. 35, 1904 abstract by F. W. Woll in Wisconsin Experiment Bulletin No. 151. 



'"Landw .Vers. Sta. 62, J. 11-180. Abstract by F. W. Woll, Wis. Experiment Station Bulletin, 151. 



