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valueless to a well animal and a poor reliance as a means of cur- 

 ing a sick one. If an animal is well he only needs plenty of good 

 food — if he is sick the wise course is to employ remedial agents 

 suited to the case." 



In 1895 in Bulletin 20 Dr. Jordan, at that time director of this 

 Station, summed up all that seemingly need be said in the 

 following 



''Facts to be Remembered. 



"(1) The mixture of ingredients contained in the ordinary 

 foods comprises all that are known either to practice or science as 

 useful to animal life. 



"(2) The ordinary cattle foods supply animal nutrition in 

 the most useful and economical forms. 



"(3) 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. 



"(4) The farmer could manufacture his own "condimental" 

 food at a fraction of their usual cost, by mixing a small amount 

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

 caraway, etc., with the daily ration." 



But a fraud dies hard. It is to be hoped that the manufac- 

 turers of this class of materials flourish "not on the ignorance of 

 farmers but on that lingering remnant of old times, which made 

 saltpeter and sulphur the universal cure-all for horses and cattle." 



The condimental foods most extensively advertised in this 

 State for cattle are Xutriotone, International Stock Food and 

 Baum's Stock Food. Mr. Winton, the expert of the Connecticut 

 Experiment Station, is the only station worker in New England 

 with the skill and knowledge necessary to microscopic identifica- 

 tion of the various materials which are used in these mixturers, 

 and the following is founded upon the results of his examinations 

 as published in the bulletins and reports of that station. 



Nutriotone consists chiefly of linseed meal, corn meal, wheat 

 feed, cottonseed meal, fenugreek, salt, charcoal and sulphur. 

 The International Stock Food consists principally of wheat feed, 

 cayenne, a bitter drug which is probably gentian, salt and char- 

 coal ; while Baum's Stock Food is made up of linseed meal, char- 

 coal, salt, Epsom salts and sulphur. 



