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amount of corn meal and fed wet, a gain of .89 of a 

 pound per head per day was obtained with seven months 

 animals. When this same food was soaked 12 hours the 

 gain was at the rate of 1.28 pounds per head per day, 

 which showed a marked advantage in favor of the 

 soaked food. Where red dog was used, unsoaked, the 

 amount of food consumed per head per day varied from 

 4.3 to 4.9 pounds. The cost of a pound of gain where 

 red dog and corn meal were soaked, was 4.34 cents; 

 when unsoaked, 5.42 cents." Nineteen pigs were used 

 in each of the two groups, and the cost of red dog was 

 figured at $27.50 a ton. 



"STOCK FOODS" 



In view of the many condimental, proprietary, or 

 patented "stock foods" everywhere on sale, and the won- 

 derful claims advertised by their manufacturers as to the 

 worth and importance of their goods to stockmen, Prof. 

 F. W. W'oll, chemist of the Wisconsin experiment station 

 (Bulletin No. 151), made a series of investigations to 

 learn the ingredients, effects and probable original cost 

 if a large number of the "foods" kept most prominently 

 before the public. Their ingredients were found to be 

 mainly, in greater or less proportions, wheat and corn 

 offal, bean or pea hulls, corn meal, oil meal, mustard 

 iuills. common salt, epsom salt, glauber salt, charcoal, sul- 

 phur, pepper, fenugreek, saltpeter and lime. The average 

 cost of the drugs entering into the compounding of the 

 ■'foods" is apparently not above ten cents per pound, and 

 the price at which the foods are sold to farmers ranges as 



