Show SEAWEED LATEST HEALTH BUILDER fed to live stock it alad also provides iodine in milk perhaps there Is nothing new under I 1 the sun but the new uses often found for old things are amazing enough to keep as interested in life for instance seaweed when the hogs owned by J M X ballard ot of Ind indiana inua won woe the grand championship pion ship at the last international livestock show in ClI chicago cago most of the farmers who inquired about their diet were amazed to find that they were being fed kelp a rough brown leaf seaweed that grows in profusion off both american coasts prof oscar E erf rf of the ohio state university was the first to experiment with kelp as live stock steel feed ills success 1 prompted experiments at purdue university and later ones at the iowa and utah agricultural experiment sta eions it was found that the weed contained at least 80 30 important chemical elements and was as especially rich in iodine in which several regions ot 0 the country are deficient says the farm journal mixed in a very small proportion with other feed it proved to have decidedly valuable medicinal qualities not only has this addition to animal I 1 diet helped tha an animals mals it also Is pro viding a means of supplying iodine to the human population it has been definitely proved that b by using kelp in a cows cowa ration iodine can bo be fed into the milk chicago physicians tire are recommending this iodized ionized 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 prop eigles could be transmitted dl directly rec y to 0 human and animal uses that Is it hart had never occurred to anyone in the united states recently over in japan wise little orientals Orient als have been eating seaweed for ages and occidental visitors generally have regarded d it as a primitive habit good market seen for right kind of colts for about the first time in 15 years the old time horse dealer Is in his glory now says IV 11 peters chief of the division of animal husbandry of the university of minnesota this year the demand for horses has been such that most any old kind hind of a horse could be sold for some kind of a price and any good horse could be sold for a good price the time has finally arrived says professor peters when all that farmers need to do to insure a good profitable horse market for several years to come Is to go ahead and raise colts colta provided they have good big mares to wate mate to good big stallions the need for horses Is so great however vint that many farmers farr oera are likely to decide to begin raising colts from whatever mares they have the common inferior ones as well ns as the good big ones this will be the quickest and surest way of creating an over supply of inferior horses in a few years and destroying what would be come a permanent profitable market for hores if every farmer would re solve to raise malse only good useful colta |