PATENT CATTLE-FOODS. 



H. WHITCHER. 



The analyses made by the Station chemist and reported be- 

 low are very suggestive to any one who will observe the large 

 quantities of so-called " Concentrated Foods " that are piled in 

 the storehouses of many if not most of our grain dealers. That 

 large quantities are sold no one can doubt, and we know of in- 

 stances where careful men have been deceived and have pur- 

 chased considerable quantities, even to the extent of a ton or 

 more of some one of these frauds, paying more than JiSioo.oo per 

 ton. and the fact that such an imposition can be practiced nat- 

 urally leads to the question, cannot some law be placed on our 

 statutes which shall effectually prevent such swindling? 



"Quack horse doctors" and "Concentrated Cattle- Food" 

 manufacturers are twins, and they flourish, not on the ignorance 

 of farmers, but on thf.t '.inhering remnant of "old times," which 

 made saltpetre and sulphur the universal cure-all for horses and 

 cattle. So far as their food value is concerned the foods below 

 reported are worth only from $20.00 to $25.00 per ton, and 

 while they may be relished by cattle, owing chiefly to the salt they 

 contain, still it would be more economical to buy good corn 

 meal, middlings, cotton seed, etc., at the market price and then 

 furn'sh the necessary salt at market rates, than to pay such prices 

 as these mixtures are sold for, and so far as the medicinal claim 

 is crncerned, we have only to sa), that the day will come when 

 cattle and horses will be intelligently treated for diseases, and 

 even the treatment of a "Quack" is beUer, and certainly cheap- 

 er, than the wholesale use of mixtures of unknown composition. 



