1905.] Condiments in Animal Foods. 367 



Horses considered to be affected with glanders and farcy 

 either in consequence of the clinical symptoms which they 

 exhibit or by re-acting under the mallein test, are to be slaugh- 

 tered without compensation. 



Horses imported for direct transit are not subject to these 

 regulations. 



The importation and transit of horses must take place through 

 the ports of Antwerp, Ghent, and Ostend. 



Some experiments as to the influence of condiments on food 



consumption, digestibility, and milk secretion, carried out at 



the Hohenheim Agricultural Experiment 



Condiments Station by Herr Gustav Fingerling in 

 in 



Animal Foods. l 9° 2 ~4> nave recently been published in 



the Landzuirtschaftliche Versnchs-Stationen 

 (Vol. LXIL, Parts I.-III.). 



The experiments, which were very carefully conducted, were 

 divided into two parts: (1) The influence of condiments 

 on food consumption, digestibility, and milk secretion in com- 

 bination with a food poor in condimental substances ; and 

 (2) Their value when combined with an ordinary appetising 

 food. The feeding stuff employed in (1) was artificially com- 

 pounded of certain materials so as to make up the required 

 proportions of albuminoids, fat, and carbo-hydrates, but to 

 avoid appetising or seasoning materials. It was composed 

 of a bye-product of straw used for manufacturing purposes, 

 earth-nut oil, starch flour, and a bye-product of the manufacture 

 of a protein preparation (Tropon), together with spelt-straw. 

 Certain substances were added to supply mineral matter in the 

 food. In the second part of the experiment a ration in common 

 use was selected, viz., meadow hay, brewers' grains, and sesame 

 cake. 



The prepared mixtures of condiments which are sold in 

 Germany under many high sounding names are mostly com- 

 posed of combinations of the seeds of fennel, fenugreek, aniseed, 

 caraway, and of preparations of juniper, carob, ginger, gentian, 

 liquorice, marsh mallow, charcoal, and various salts. The seeds 

 of fennel, fenugreek, and aniseed were chiefly employed in 



