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Show SEAWEED LATEST HEALTH BUILDER Fed to Live Stock, It Also Provides Iodine in Milk. Perhaps there Is nothing new under the sun, but the new uses often found for old things are amazing enough to keep as Interested in life. For Instance, In-stance, seaweed. When the hogs owned by J. M. Ballard, Bal-lard, of Indiana, won the grand championship cham-pionship at the last International Livestock Live-stock show in Chicago, most of the farmers who inquired about their diet were amazed to find that they were being fed kelp, a rough brown-leaf seaweed sea-weed that grows In profusion off both American coasts. Prof. Oscar Erf, of the Ohio State university, was the first to experiment with kelp as live stock feed. His success suc-cess prompted experiments at Purdue university, and later ones at the Iowa and Utah agricultural experiment stations. sta-tions. It was found that the weed contained con-tained at least 30 important chemical elements and was especially rich in iodine, in which several regions of the country are deficient, says the Farm Journal. Mixed in a very small proportion pro-portion with other feed it proved to have decidedly valuable medicinal qualities. Not only has this addition to animal diet helped the animals, it also Is providing pro-viding a means of supplying Iodine to the human population. "It has been definitely proved that by using kelp in a cow's ration iodine can be fed into the milk. Chicago physicians are recommending this iodized milk to their patients," says the Farm Journal article, adding that similar experiments with eggs are proving successful. Strangely enough, kelp has been used for many years in the making of iodine itself, although It never occurred to anyone that its health-giving properties prop-erties could be transmitted directly to human and animal uses. That is, it had never occurred to anyone in the United States until recently. Over in Japan, wise little Orientals have been eating seaweed for ages, and Occidental Occi-dental visitors generally have regard ed it as a primitive habit. |