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to eat "animal food." When asked by the physician 

 how he liked the diet, he replied that he could get 

 along very well with the beets and carrots, but that, do 

 his best, he could not swallow the cut feed. For the 

 benefit of the uninitiated, it may be well to explain that 

 " cut feed " is hay cut short, say about an inch in length, 

 and mixed with grain oats and corn ground together 

 and frequently bran. A little water is usually put with 

 it. Doubtless much of the manufactured food for cattle 

 is pure, but as there is great danger of adulteration, and 

 quite as great difficulty in detecting it without a thorough 

 analysis, which cannot well be made by farmers, too 

 much care cannot be taken in guarding against such im- 

 position. 



" Experiment Stations," springing up in different parts 

 of our country, have already accomplished much good, 

 and, if rightly conducted, will prove of incalculable value 

 in stock farming, as well as in every other branch of 

 agriculture. 



Those whose chief object is to get cheap food, or cheap 

 anything else, without having due regard to its excellence, 

 expose themselves to fraud, and perhaps unconsciously 

 tempt the manufacturers to adulterate in order that 

 they may make the required reduction in price. The 

 best is generally the cheapest, and should invariably be 

 sought. 



Dr. Albert R. Ledoux, says the " N. Y. Observer," in 

 " addressing the National Agricultural Society upon the 

 subject of mixed and manufactured seeds, stated that 

 Professor Nobbe, of Germany, had made a thorough ex- 

 amination of the stock of prominent European seed- 



