72 Maine; agricultural experiment station. 1910. 



asked for them, while others are made up solely with the object 

 of getting rid of screenings, sweepings, and the refuse from 

 cereal breakfast food mills. Some of them contain an excess 

 of hulls and chaff and some contain large quantities of ground- 

 up weed seeds. 



The byproducts of breakfast food mills, oat hulls, and such 

 materials have a feeding value and the feeder of the future wall 

 no doubt use them in their proper place. They should not be 

 forced upon him under high-sounding names, ground into a 

 fine powder and further disguised with cheap molasses. The 

 attention of the public is continually called to this important 

 point by the bulletins of the various experiment stations and 

 still the mixtures of ground corn cobs, oat hulls, and weed seeds 

 seem to find a ready sale. 



CONDIMENTAL REMEDIES. 



Condimental foods are remedies and not food, and come 

 under the requirements of the Food and Drug Law. They 

 are, so far as our observation goes, sold lawfully. From time 

 to time the Experiment Station has called the attention of feed- 

 ers to the uselessness of this class of remedies. The following 

 or similar statements have been published every little while and 

 are as true today as when they were first written. 



Facts to be Remembered. 



The mixture of ingredients contained in the ordinary foods 

 comprises all that are known either to practice or science as use- 

 ful to animal life. 



The ordinary cattle foods supply animal nutrition in the most 

 useful and economical forms. 



Condimental foods are absurd as medicines. If an animal is 

 well no medicine is needed, if ill, remedies adapted to the case 

 should be administered. 



It is to be hoped that the manufacturers of this class of 

 materials flourish not on the ignorance of farmers but on that 

 lingering remnant of old times, which made saltpeter and sul- 

 phur the universal cure-all for horses and cattle. 



The farmer can manufacture his own "condimental" food 

 at a fraction of the usual cost, by mixing a small amount of 

 such common substances as salt, sulphur, saltpeter, fenugreek, 

 caraway, etc., with the daily ration. 



