New York AGrIcuLTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 65 
Attention is called to the low protein content of certain feeds 
which are refuses from starch manufacture. These are not unlike 
corn meal in the proportion of their constituents and should not 
be confounded with gluten meals and feeds. 
The composition of clover hay is not modified by grinding. So 
long as cut clover hay is fed successfully to poultry the advantage 
of paying from $20 to $30 or more per ton for having it ground is 
not clear. 
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CONDIMENTAL FOODS. 
There is found very prevalent in our markets a class of sub- 
stances bearing the term “food” that are noted chiefly for being 
sold in small packages at remarkable prices, on the strength of 
claims which are sometimes startling even in this time of daily 
miracles as set forth in the advertising columns of our newspapers. 
These proprietary wonders are usually marvelous both in their 
nutritive and their healing effects, for if one may believe the 
statements concerning some of them, they are remarkably loaded 
with nutritive energy and the diseases they will not cure would 
be highly interesting to the veterinarian as. pathological novel- 
ties. It is most surprising to find after being told that the effect 
of these “foods” is to enrich milk, produce bovine obesity with 
remarkable rapidity and banish disease, that so far no one of them 
has been examined that is not made up largely of some common 
grain product mixed with more or less of the commonest of 
drugs and other substances having little curative value, nearly 
all of which of any merit whatever may be found on the pantry 
shelf or in the horse stable of many farms. It is strange, too, that 
farmers have not long ago discovered for themselves, if it is true, 
that when bran or some other common feeding stuff is com- 
pounded with the equally common charcoal, salt, sulphur, salt- 
petre, fenugreek, etc., the nutritive power of the food is greatly 
enhanced and the drug takes on unheard of curative properties. 
Nevertheless we are asked to believe that such is the case. No 
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