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How to Make Your Own Stock Tonic at Home 



By D R. DAVID ROBERTS 

 Cattle Specialist 



The Originator of Condensed Stock Tonic. 



IMPORTANCE OF HEALTHY STOCK. 



It is a well-known fact that successful stock raising and dairying depend 

 entirely upon the health and condition of your animals. If they be in a strong, 

 healthy condition this is evidence that they are digesting and assimilating all the 

 feed that they consume. A milch cow requires a certain percentage of the feed 

 she eats to sustain her. the balance should go to the milk pail. This will be the 

 case if she is in a good, healthy condition and digesting and assimilating her feed. 



NATURE'S CARE OF THE COW. 



A cow at pasture depends entirely upon nature to supply and regulate her feed, 

 and it is during this season of the year that she produces the greatest amount of 

 milk. This is because she is furnished with such ingredients as are required by 

 nature to perfectly digest and assimilate her feed. She can only receive the feed 

 that nature has provided for her, in its natural condition, during the grass season. 



COW UNDERGOES GREAT CHANGE. 



At the close of the grass season the cow is compelled to go into winter 

 quarters, thereby undergoing a great change as to sunlight, fresh air, water, exercise 

 and feed. While being in her winter quarters she is to a certain extent deprived 

 of sunlight, and sometimes fresh air. She is usually watered at stated intervals. 

 While at pasture she can partake of water in such quantity and at such times 

 as she desires, the temperature of which is regulated by nature. This is a great 

 advantage over the ice cold water which she is often compelled to drink, or go 

 without until the following day, at which time she is so thirsty that she is apt to 

 partake so freely of it as to cause a chilling of the digestive organs, thus causing 

 indigestion. Another common cause of indigestion is the lack of exercise. During 

 the winter months, while a cow is shut in the stable so much of the time, it is 

 impossible for her to get the exercise which it is her nature to have and which 

 she gets during the summer months, while going to and from and roaming in the 

 pasture hunting her feed. The last and most important cause of indigestion is 

 the great and complete change that the cow is compelled to undergo, when 

 required to change from the feed which nature provides in its natural form to 

 the dry, fibrous apd hard to digest fodders, which it is necessary that she be fed 

 upon, not only to sustain her, but also to make a profit for her owner. 



A WINTER PROFIT PRODUCER. 



If a cow during the winter months can be made a profit producer, it can only 

 tie done by furnishing her with something to stimulate her digestive organs and 

 keep them in a healthy condition, so that she may thoroughly digest and assimilate 

 the feed that she eats. This can be done by adding to her regular ration such 

 ingredients as she may need to tone up her system and thereby furnish her with 

 a substitute for nature. A cow can produce more. by receiving little feed and 

 digesting it well, then by receiving much feed and only digesting part of it. 



