CHEMICAL COMPOSITION. 



F. W. MORSE. 



Samples of three diflferent cattle-foods/ or condition-pow- 

 ders, ^hich have been extensively sold in this State, were 

 bought in the open market and subjected to a chemical analysis. 

 The names of these foods were respectively: Pratt's Pood, 

 Weston's Condition Powders, and Climax Food. The results of 

 analysis were as follows : 



PRATT'S FOOD. 



Manufactured at Philadelphia, Pa. 



Price, 75c. per 12 lbs., or (6.00 per 100 lbs. 



This food was claimed in the circular to be purely vegeta- 

 ble, to contain no mineral or other poison, and to be neither a 

 medicine nor condition pow der.j^^ 1 he last claim w as well found- 

 ed, as the following analysis shows. The " food " appears to be 

 wheat middlings, to which has been added seme fenugreek and 

 con.mon salt. The anal} sis shows a composition very much 

 like wheat bran or middlings, with a high percentage of ash, 

 owing to tie addition of salt. 



The composition of wheat middlings is given in comparison 

 with the composition of the "^food" 



The c(n}(siticri cl mic'dlirgs is taken hem the Experi- 

 ment Station Kecord, Vol. 2, No. 12. 



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