MAINE AGRICUI.TUR-\L EXPERIMENT STATION. 



1905. 



has been added charcoal, cayenne, rosin, salt, copperas, sulphur, 

 gentian, \'enetian red and possibly a few other materials of like 

 nature, seems so much of a joke that it is not easy to appreciate 

 the seriousness of the situation. The Securit}- Stock Food Glu- 

 tenized, that will prevent or overcome all the ills that horse, cow, 

 cattle, colt, sheep, or hog flesh is heir to, differs from Security 

 Poultry Food, Albuminized, which is invaluable for young 

 chicks, ducks, turkeys and geese, by not containing charcoal. 



A correspondent claimed that the United Breeders Dairy 

 Food, made by the United Breeders Company of America, was 

 locally sold as a food and not as a medicine. It was accordingly 

 sampled and analyzed. It does not claim, to be a food in the 

 usual sense of that word, but is '"a tonic for purifying the blood," 

 The manufacturers use ground linseed as a basis, instead of 

 wheat bran, the foundation of the ti;\'o other condimental foods 

 here reported upon. It contains in addition to the flax seed the 

 usual ''simples," such as fenugreek, sulphur, charcoal, common 

 sal:, Eps::r_ ii^'.-.i, etc. The analyses of the three condimental 

 foods follow: 





15 So. 



iili 



.a 





7.26 

 25.42 

 11.88 



8.80 

 36.^ 

 10.01 



5.70 

 31.18 

 11.88 



5.53 

 35.91 



9.80 



8.23 



Ash 



13.68 



Pxotpi'n . 



26,63 



Fi: er 3.r.'''. charcoal 



IS. 70 



25.15 

 7.61 







