490 GRASSES OF IOWA. 



gence to mix feeds can afford to buy it at anything like the 

 price asked.' 



"In the light of this information the farmers of New York 

 must decide whether they can afford to pay at the rate of $100 

 per ton for materials no more valuable than these which are 

 generally offered in our markets at ordinary prices. Special 

 mention is made of this feed because it is sold for distinctively 

 food purposes, and because, prices considered, it perhaps does 

 the farmer's pocketbook as little harm as any other food men- 

 tioned in the above list, and less than all excepting No. 462. 

 At the same time it typifies all those efforts here discussed of 

 mixing common materials and selling them under extra- 

 ordinary names at extraordinary prices." 



