OCR Text |
Show I : i SHORT TALKS ON FEEDING- -By Professor Herbert W. Mumford i J 1 Wni'LI like to Inquire If. In your 1 feeding experiment, you have found that n tonic or stock food fed In connection with ripe coin silage and cotton seed rneal or linseed nl lineal and cornmeal to 1000-pound 1000-pound cat tin on 100 to t0 days' feed, a paj--ing proposition, and If so, what Is best?" Answering your question. I would refer you to ISulletln 1C1 of the experiment station of the University of Wisconsin, from which I quote the following pertlent paragraphs; "Views of Authorities In leeward to Stock Foods A few extracts from experiment station sta-tion bulletins and other publications arc presented pre-sented herewith. In order to show tho views of men who have made a special study of problems connected with feeding of farm animals, in regard to condlmental stock foods nnd their use in stock feeding. The list could be extended to cover many pogea, but with the quotations already given It will suffice suf-fice to convince all open to conviction that the views of the author on the subject under I discussion, as expressed In the preceding pages, are In mnforiTilly with those of recognized recog-nized authorities on animal nutrition In this and otln-r countries. 'Jenkins and Wlnton (-onnei t h uO The claims that by the use of condiments and spices the dtnesliblllty of food can be In creased and In this way a saving of feed can be effected have no basis In fact. N1.) experiments have demonstrated or made even probable such an effccL Stock feeders w III be very slow to believe that cotton si ed meal. Unseed meal, wheat feeds or corn pruduct8 can bo made more easily digestible or even more acceptable to healthy cattle by mixing with them Epsom salts, charcoal, ginger or fenugreek. "Jordan (N'evv Work) I cannot h ave this subject of the purchase of commercial feeding feed-ing stuffs without uttering a warning against the so-culled condlmental foods. Early and late have we pleaded with farmers to stop laying from $1C0 to J100 per ton for materials ma-terials having no more nutritive voluo than bran, linseed meal nnd other common commercial com-mercial articles, and no medicinal value that Is worth regarding, and yet waste of money goes 011 "Plumb (Ohio) No doubt In many rases oilmeal will give fully as satisfactory results re-sults as the stock food Tho feeder should study this matter can fully, and 1t he will use 11 variety of food, including oilmeal, and will ascertain the value of some of the more common tonics that may be glvi 11 stock In the- foods, ho will secure, no doubt, equally good results at the least cost. He will, In 1 fact, be able to make his own stock food I und thus save paying high prices for feed of an unknown characti r. "Henry (Wisconsin) Vigorous, healthy Ii an'.inals do not m ike better use of thr ir feed 1Ccause of th.ir addition. If animals arc out of condition they should receiv e spei fie treatment ae. onliiig to thcr ailments. A good manager of live stock will have no use for these high-priced condlmental foods or condition powders; a poor manager will never have line slock by ciiipi ylric; tin m. "Marfan. me t Ottawa, Canada) That there are remedies for specllle disease, used In veterinary practice, which are sold ns such. Is no doubt tho case, but us regard the universal c: ttle medicine, or 'eure-aM it Is very doubtful as to whether the farm, r obtains value for his money. The evidence at hand goes to show that (here Is a practical unanimity of opinion I among scientific nun In public positions who have given the subject special study in re-gaid re-gaid to .several points connected with cn-dimeiit.nl cn-dimeiit.nl slock feuds: 1. They are of no brnelll to healthy animals ani-mals when fed as directed, either us to increasing in-creasing the digestibility of the fe. .1 eaten or rendering it more effective for the pro-j pro-j ductlon of meat, milk, wool, etc. 2. They aro of no benefit as a cure-all for diseases of the various classes of live sti'M. k; neither do they possess any .articular .articu-lar merit In case of specific diseases, or for animals out of condition, off feed, etc., since only a small proportion of Ingredients having mc.ik Inal value is found therein, the bulk of the foods consisting of a filler which possesses pos-sesses no medicln.il properties whatever. C. Exorbitant prices are charged for these food-;, as Is natural, considering the extensive exten-sive advertising the manufacturers are doing and the liberal commissions which they pay agents and dealers. The large sales of stock foods aro doubtless mainly to be attributed to these faits. I. Uy adopting a. liberal system of feeding farm animals and furnishing a variety of feeds go .1) results may be obtained without resorting to slock foods of any kind. If a I farmer believes it is necessary to feed stock I foods at times be inn purchase the Ingredi- cuts at a drug store and make his own stock foods at a fraction of the cost charged for tin. in by the manufacturers. He will tin 11 I have the additional satisfaction of knowlng I just what he is feeding and of feeding a j cont ent rated "food." Instead of one largely I diluted with non-medicinal ingredients. |