APPENDIX. 137 



From Crop Bulletin ?so. 6, 1894, Me. Board of Agr. 



"Xutriotone." Cost 25 cents per pound. (Sold in some cases 

 for $7.00 for 50 pounds.) "Consisted largely of linseed meal with 

 a litle fenugreek and apparently some pea or bean meal. It con- 

 tained 18.67 per cent, ash, a large part of which was common salt." 



The following - are some of the statements that have been made 

 by men who are students of animal nutrition, in regard to condi- 

 mental cattle foods in general. 



"Mr. Lawes of Bothamstead, England, made a most thorough, 

 practical trial on the use of condiments in feeding, and demon- 

 strated that there is no profit in it." — Rep. Conn. Expt. Sta.. 1878, 

 p. 125. 



"The foods have no greater nutritive value than -wheat bran, 

 middlings and corn meal from which they are made, while the small 

 quantities of fenugreek and sulphur are utterly valueless to a "well 

 animal, and a poor reliance as a means of curing a sick one." — Rep. 

 Maine Expt. Sta., 1885, p. 53. 



"The practice of buying - compound feeding stuffs in the general 

 market, without a sufficient actual knowledge regarding 'the kind 

 or the character of its various ingredients, ought to be decidedly 

 discouraged; for the farmer who pursues that course, leaves his 

 best interest to mere chance." — Mass. Expt. Sta., Bui. 20, p. 7. 



"It has been abundantly proven that condimental foods have no 

 advantage over others by reason of the condiments in them. As 

 medicines thej r may well be distrusted in view of the absurd claims 

 made by the seller." — Rep. Conn. Expt. Sta., 1S88, p. 148. 



"Quack horse doctors and Concentrated Cattle food manufacturers 

 are twins, and they 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 



foods reported below are worth only from $20 to $25, per ton 



So far as the medicinal claim is concerned, even the treat- 

 ment of a 'Quack' is better, and certainly cheaper, than the whole- 

 sale use of mixtures of unknown composition." — Bui. 15, N. H. Expt. 

 Sta., p. 3. 



Facts To Be Bemembered. 



(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. 



