SEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK-PART Y. 169 



One such mixed feed was found to contain: 



Ground alfalfa and molasses 600 pounds 



Crushed grains, not corn 750 pounds 



Crushed corn 250 pounds 



Oat and cereal hulls 400 pounds 



This feed, selling at $20.00 a ton, contained 14.04 per cent protein. 



Another feed contained: 



Ground alfalfa 731 pounds 



Corn hulls 357 pounds 



Linseed meal 476 pounds 



Blood meal ' 289 pounds 



Ground corn 147 pounds 



This feed contained 23.95 per cent protein, and sold at $2.50 per hun- 

 dred pounds; when oil meal containing 32.90 per cent protein was selling 

 at $1.60 per hundred pounds. The oil meal containing 9 per cent more 

 protein was selling at 90 cents per hundred less than this mixed feed. 



Our markets are surfeited with condimental and tonic foods, more or 

 less valueless. 



The preposterous claims under which many of these stock foods and 

 tonics are sold are absurd. Home of them are fraudulently misrepresenta- 

 tive; the virtues claimed for them being contradictory or impossible. The 

 following, taken from the printed matter on the outside of the same box, 

 illustrates the gullery practiced by these manufacturers: 



"One measure full is mixed with their regular feed every night for a 



week or ten days; then you can feed morning and night for a few days; 



. after that you can reduce the amount of grains you were feeding. Three 



quarts of corn, oats or meal, well mixed with one ounce of Food, 



is better for an animal than four quarts without it. 

 "For Horses: 

 "To prevent colic or disease — one tablespoonful, three times a day. 



"For cows: 

 "To prevent abortion, garet, milk fever, and dairy diseases — one table- 

 spoonful daily. 



"For Poultry: 

 "To prevent roup and all other diseases — one tablespoonful to each 



"For Hogs: 

 "To cure cholera and hog diseases — one tablespoonful scalded and 

 mixed with milk and fed daily." 



This marvelous cure-all and do-all was "scientifically" (?) com- 

 pounded of: 



Anise seed 



Carroway seed 



Foenugreek seed 



Flax seed 1 These are not recognized in veterinary 



Tumeric ( practice as medicines. 



Sassafras bark 



Poplar bark 



Slippery elm bark 



