66 Rerort or roe DeparTMENT oF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY OF THE 
evidence of the accuracy of these unusual properties is furnished, 
save the usual list of testimonials, the reliability of which may be 
judged in the light of the fact that some of the most absurd im- 
positions ever perpetrated on the public have been abundantly 
approved by similar evidence. Years ago, Lawes & Gilbert con- 
demned patent foods at the prices for which they are sold, and 
important experiments conducted in recent years have not fur- 
nished the least justification of their purchase by stockmen. 
Farmers may accept with perfect confidence this statement, viz.: 
that there are no nutritive properties, compounds or influences yet 
discovered which are not possessed by the common feeding stuffs, 
neither is it possible to increase for well animals the nutritive 
effect of protein and carbohydrates by associating with them any 
compounds or drugs whatever. 
As to the medicinal value of condimental foods, it may be safely 
asserted that well animals, properly fed, need no medicine, and 
sick animals should receive treatment specifically adapted to their 
ailments. Universal preventives and curealls of diseases are un- 
known and are believed in only by those who are ignorantly cred- 
ulous. More than this, many of the constituents of condimental 
foods have no recognized curative value. 
But notwithstanding all that has been said again and again to 
the farming public concerning condimental foods, they still find a 
sale. Not less than fifteen brands have been examined at this 
Station during the past two years, all of which were found in the 
New York markets. Their analyses from a food standpoint follew. 
SAMPLES OF PATENT Foops CoLLECTED IN NEW YorK DuriInG 1898 AND 1899. 



Station Sample: Where Price per | Station Sample: Where Price per 
number. collected. pound. | number. co.lected. pound 
AARC PCOT DION, at hej y se ee) ee 459... Dansville’, 222. $0 131-3 
446he4 Cormn ous. Area. ote $0 20 460... Mt! Morris #2 0323. 06 1-4 
448.. Hornellsville ...... 05 461... Mt.c Morris te. ene 10 
450.. Hornellsville ...... 25 462 9 Buffalo nicie see 50 
451.. Hornellsville ...... OT) 1-3 | 485 50). eee cee ee 
£56.) ADISLOO ns pede wiser 25 502 Sy) . See ee ee at 15 
ABTS) DEMBVILG! be oe wile ais 18 BOO a.” panini kite tes lade os ee a ee 
468° 2) Dansville o2i ew ov 10 1-2 
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