222 Feeds and Feeding. 



were I to give to each horse, ox, sheep, and pig, a daily allowance of 

 one of these costly foods." 



Farm animals managed with reasonable care have appetites which 

 do not need stimulating. Sick animals or those out of condition 

 should receive specific treatment rather than be given some cure-all. 

 A good manager of live stock has no use for high-priced stock foods 

 or condition powders, and a poor manager will never have fine stock 

 by employing them. In rare cases the available feeding stuffs may be 

 of such poor quality that some condiment may cause the animal to 

 eat more heartily, and where animals are in low condition and with- 

 out appetite some spice may prove helpful. To cover such rare cases 

 the formulae for three "stock foods" or "spices" are presented. 



First formula Second formula Third formula 



Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. 



Fenugreek 2 Powdered gentian . 8 Ground gentian 4 



Allspice 2 Ginger 8 Powdered saltpeter 1 



Gentian 4 Fenugreek 8 Ground ginger 1 



Salt 5 Powdered sulfur... 8 Powdered copperas 1 



Saltpeter 5 Potassium nitrate. 8 



Epsom salts 10 Resin 8 



Linseed meal 100 Cayenne pepper 4 



Linseed meal 44 



Powdered charcoal _ 20 



Common salt 20 



Wheat bran 100 



The above materials are easily obtainable and there is no trouble 

 in compounding them. Oil meal or middlings is not necessary if one 

 will thoroly mix together the other ingredients and give the proper 

 amount along with some rich concentrate like oil meal, wheat mid- 

 dlings, or ground oats. At ordinary prices for the materials, either 

 formula can be made up for about 5 cents per lb., or about one-fourth 

 what is usually charged for something no better. A tablespoonful in 

 each feed will supply more drugs of possible value than the same 

 measure of most of the advertised stock foods. 



IV. Commercial Feeding Stuffs Control. 



A large part of all the by-products of the grain elevators, flouring 

 mills, sugar, glucose and oil factories, breweries, distilleries, etc., 

 form legitimate feeding stuffs, usually of high quality. There is 

 next a middle class, such as the light grains of wheat, barley, and 

 oats, certain weed seeds, oat hulls, oat dust, etc., which range from 

 low to fair in feeding value, and should not be wasted. Finally there 

 is the trash of elevators and mills — rice hulls, com cobs, peanut hulls, 

 cocoa waste, certain weed seeds, etc., ranging from worthless to dan- 



