488 



GRASSES OP IOWA 



ANALYSES OF SAMPLES OF PATENT FOOD. 



445 



446 

 448 

 450 

 451 

 456 



457 



458 

 459 

 460 

 461 



462 

 485 

 502 



539 



NAME. 



Fiower City Horse and Cat 



tie Food 



International Stock Food.. 



Blatchfurd's Calf Meal 



Nutiitone 



Pratt's Cattle Food 



Rochester Horse and Cat 



tie Food 



Anglo-American Food for 



Stock 



Climax Food , 



Colonial Stock Food . . 



Royal Stock Food 



Baums' Horse and Stock 



Food 



Chas. Marvin Stock Food 



Triplex Stock Food 



Champion Horse and Cat 



t'e Food .• 



Wilbur's Seed Meal 





5.12 

 7.91 

 4 58 

 ".13 

 7.53 



3.61 



4.85 



*22 53 



2.54 



3.52 



7.75 



4 28 



4.68 



5 63 



"In these mixtures were found as the principal constituent 

 some common feeding stuff like bran or other wheat cffals, 

 corn offals, linseed meal and so on. The special ingredients, 

 added ostensibly for medical effect, were found to include 

 charcoal, fenugreek, gentian, sulphur, salt, saltpetre, sodium 

 sulphate, iron compounds and pepper. 



"Particular attention is called to the prices a^. which these 

 'foods' are sold. The range is from $100 to 8500 per ton, 

 which is at least from $70 to $470 per ton more than the mate- 

 rials are worth for food purposes. It may be claimed, as some 

 of the manufacturers urge, that these mixtures should be 

 regarded as medicines. Even if this is true, the farmer who 

 wishes to administer any of these common su*^stances to his 

 animals can do so at a small fraction of their cost in condi- 

 mental feed by purchasing them as drugs and then mixing 

 them with the grain ration as he wishes. For the promoters 

 of these naixtures to claim that they have any knowledge of 

 compounds and compounding not common to veterinary medi- 

 cine is charlatanism in its most offensive form. 



"Blatchford's calf meal is advertised as a food of great, 

 value. Director Woods, of the Maine station, has given this 



♦Mostly Sulphur. 



