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body, as well as we can figure out a proper food ration. If we feed 

 for profit, we must also feed for health, and as an animal cannot 

 very well be profitable unless it is healthy, the two must go together. 



If an animal refuses its usual food ration, we at once conclude 

 there is something wrong with the digestive organs. This is not all, 

 for if one of the vital organs of the body is out of order the rest must 

 sufTer in sympathy, as in a state of perfect health all the vital organs 

 must work in harmony with each other. In looking for the cause 

 of the trouble you must conclude that it is due to an error in feed- 

 ing and hasten to remove the cause before it becomes chronic and 

 causes a lot of unnecessary waste of time, food and energy. We 

 then must hasten to repair the damage which has been done by this 

 little error, by administering stimulating agents to the organs af- 

 fected to bring them back to their natural condition and enable them 

 to perform their natural functions. 



One of the first symptoms of a deranged condition of the or- 

 gans of digestion is a sour smell from the mouth and also from the 

 feces. This is an indication of an excessive acidity. This acidity 

 can easily be eliminated and avoided by adding to the food ration 

 enough of a simple alkali which favors digestion and avoids the 

 trouble in the first place. We next notice that the liver, lymphatics, 

 kidneys and other organs become inactive and lack tone; this we 

 eliminate by adding simple, natural alteratives and dieretics, such 

 as really belong in the food ration and are demanded by nature. We 

 also can tone the nervous system and the process of digestion by 

 adding natural stomachics and tonics in the same proportions as the 

 animal gets under natural conditions. By carefully studying the 

 natural conditions required to make an animal healthy and profitable 

 and comparing them with the conditions existing when the animal 

 is under domestication, one must conclude that the deficiency which 

 we all admit can easily be figured out if you are familiar with the 

 requirements of the animal body. 



The writer believes he has figured out the proper formula to 

 meet all the demands of nature in such a form that every farmer can 

 prepare his own stock food or stock tonic, so that he will receive 

 more benefit out of a given amount of food the year round and keep 

 the animal in its proper health than can be obtained under the ordi- 

 nary practice of feeding. By adding this formula to the daily food 

 ration in proper proportions, you place the animal under domestica- 

 tion on a level with the one that is allowed its natural freedom in 

 the rich meadow or pasture. Its blood is kept in exactly the same 

 condition and is supplied with all the demands of nature. 



