Show feeding stimulants to increase weight utilization of feed profits from dosage evidence that tonics and stimulants are as effective for livestock and poultry as they are for humans Is contained I 1 in n research conducted by washington experiment peri ment station A year ago the experiment station started a feeding trial with four I 1 groups of hereford heifers heffers six in each group one group serving as a control was fed a basal grain ration cOll consisting of barley oats beet pulp peas and bran the other three groups had the same grain ration with these additions lot 2 fowlers solution 18 grams arsenic trioxide per 1000 pounds of grain lot 3 grams of per 1000 pounds of grain lot 4 2 pounds per 1000 pounds of grain during the first two weeks of feeding the heifers heffers getting vornica lot 3 gained 38 pounds per head daily those getting fowlers solution 26 pounds those getting ou racil 24 pounds control animals only 6 pounds during the following two week period steers gained 41 pounds fowlers solution 31 3 control 3 As the weeks went by the average daily gains tor for all groups came closer together here are the rates of gain tor for the four groups at the end of 14 weeks controls no stimulant pounds fowlers solution 26 pounds 21 pounds 25 pounds the cost of feed per pound of weight gain was lowest in the group that is they made better use of feed than the others |