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Show Selection ol Feeds Vital in Stock Health Ration Llust Be Adequate In Minerals, Vitamins What you feed your livestock today to-day will determine the profit you make tomorrow, for experts are agreed that keeping livestock healthy is a profitable job and to do that, care must be observed in choosing livestock feed. Feed ng livestock on a ration deficient de-ficient in minerals, vitamins, proteins pro-teins and carbohydrates, as well as fats, often leads to nutritional ,dis- eases. Lack of any of the common or trace minerals in home grown feeds may be and often is. responsible respon-sible for terrific livestock, feed, labor la-bor and investment losses. The problem of supplying minerals miner-als in thei right proportions is only a part of the compounding of a product that will solve the livestock man's problems. First, no matter how good the ingredients that go into the making up of a feed, if livestock refuse to eat it the feed is useless so far as benefiting the animal is concerned. In recent years much has been discovered about livestock diseases due to dietary influences. In this connection, the U. S. department of agriculture says: "Whenever a vital function ... is interrupted owing to continued failure of the diet to supply sufficient quantities of essential nutrients, or to the inability in-ability of the body to utilize these nutrients, the so-called nutritional diseases develop." |