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animal of 15j^c a day. This cheaper feed would have just as good food 

 value, mind you. 



Figure what this saving would come to 100 times 15^c per day. By 

 the time you multiply this amount by the 300 full working ration days in 

 the year, you have something to show for it, haven't you? Does scientific 

 feeding pay? 



PLEASING Let us stick to this same illustration: adding molasses 



THE PALATE in this ration supplies, you say, the sugar needed; but 

 in fact it does a great deal more it makes the mixture 

 palatable. 



Palatability is a sort of food insurance, or assurance. If palatable, 

 more food is eaten, and it is better digested. Never forget this. 



"SEASONING" Often there are cheap, easy-to-get feeds on the place but 

 such as the animal doesn't seem to relish. Did you ever 

 try seasoning such a ration either mixing up the unpopular but whole- 

 some part along with the best liked part of the ration; or else just using 

 our convenient appetizer, Conkey's Stock Tonic? Digestion starts right if 

 a food is palatable. At the signal of the palate the mouth "waters" we 

 say, meaning that the salivary glands respond. A man or animal that 

 doesn't relish his proper food is just sounding the honk, honk horn for 

 trouble. 



A food may balance all right and still not suit the animal's notion. 

 Don't reject it but combine it with the Stock Tonic in the small doses 

 suggested on the package; when it will make the food more likable and 

 act as a general conditioner, without strong medicinal effect, on account 

 of the small quantity used. 



Remember again: IT ISN'T THE FOOD IN ITS CRUDE STATE 

 THAT NOURISHES. IT IS WHAT THE DIGESTIVE PROCESSES 

 GET OUT OF IT. The animal must chew thoroughly, digest fully, so that 

 the nutritive elements we have been talking about become soluble and can 

 be taken up by the tissues. Stock Tonic when used in the amount indicated 

 for a conditioner, gives palatability to food; and thus the necessary elements 

 in the ration are put in solution by the digestive juices which appetite excites 

 to secretion. 



UNDIGESTED WASTE We first discussed the kind and amount of food 



taken. We see now there is this added element 



how much the animal can get out of it. By actual test 5^4 Ibs. of crude 

 fibre produced more than 2->4 Ibs. of waste or excrement-^only a little over 

 half of it was digested. Some authorities claim that full digestibility is 

 secured (approximately) only when the proportion is as follows: 



Cattle 



1 part digestible crude protein to 8 parts digestible carbohydrates 



and fat. Nutritive ratio, 1:8. 

 Sheep 



1 part digestible crude protein to 12 parts digestible carbohydrates 



and fat. Nutritive ratio, 1:12. 



ANIMALS Animals make quite a different use of their feed; 



AND PRODUCTS and according to Prof. Henry,* the cow leads all farm 



animals in ability to convert crops into marketable 



products, with other livestock the pig, fowl, steer and sheep in the order 



*Henry's "Feeds and Feeding." 



