New Yorx AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 67 
ANALYSES OF SAMPLES OF PATENT FOopDS. 

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445. Flower city horse and cattle food. 9.27 11.29 14.37 9.70 21.0 5,12 
446. International stock food ....... Belay ive floes 219 8 TOL 
448. Blatchford’s calf meal ......... inka) O94 P26 1S A 420 23 A56 
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Bowe ratte cattle food.) 90.5 6 0ks 1225) 616.36 2114356. 155.78) 35.4) 77.58 
456. Rochester horse and cattle food. 8.00 8.19 18.44 10.59 215 3.61 
457. Anglo-American food for stock.. 7.20 13.28 15.50 7.86 25.8 4.85 
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BRC Pes LOCK TOO 18... 6 ais <b Jae at « 5.56 44.07 11.25 9.73 13.7 3.52 
461. Baums’ horse and stock food.... 8.05 10.87 27.81 13.00 9.2 7.75 
462. Chas. Marvin: stock food ....... B.2602 5.07 3380.945-10:63. 18:2.) 4.28 
euoineplex stock’ food ............- 7.10 12.05 15.31, .6.381 28.8 5.66 
502. Champion horse and cattle food. 8.99 14.40 10.69 4.74 41.2 4.68 
Savy iibur s seed: meal 36.25. cee T.13, 12:16 20.00° 18.18 20.9: 16:63 




In these mixtures were found as the principal constituent some 
common feeding stuff like bran or other wheat offals, corn offals, 
linseed meal, and so on. The special ingredients added ostensibly 
for medicinal effect, were found to include charcoal, fenugreek, 
gentian, sulphur, salt, saltpeter, sodium sulphate, iron compounds 
and pepper. 
Particular attention is called to the prices at which these 
“foods” are sold. The range is from $100 te $590 per ton, which 
is at least from $70 to $470 per ton more than the materials 
are worth for food purposes. It may be claimed, as some of the 
manufacttrers urge, that these mixtures should be regarded as 
medicines. Even if this is true the farmer who wishes to ad- 
minister any of these common substances to his animals can do so 
at a small fraction of their cost in condimental foods by purchasing 
them as drugs and then mixing them with the grain ration as he 
wishes. For the promoters of these mixtures to claim that they 
have any knowledge of compounds and compounding not common 
to veterinary medicine is charlatanism in its most offensive form. 
Blatchford’s calf meal is advertised as a food of great value. 
* Mostly sulphur. 
