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 seaweed when the hogs owned by J M X ballard of indiana won the grand championship pion plon ship at the last iasi international livestock show in hi chicago most of the farmers who inquired about their diet were amazed to find that they were being fed kelp a tough rough brown leaf sea weed that krows grows in profusion oft both american coasts prof oscar erf of the ohio state university was the first to experiment with kelp as live stock feed ills success prompted experiments at purdue university and later ones at the iowa and utah butali agricultural experiment stations it was found that the weed contained at least SO 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 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 a means of supplying iodine to the human population it has been definitely proved that by using kelp in a cows ration iodine can be fed into the milk chicago physicians 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 haa been used for many years in the making of iodine itself although it never occurred to anyone that its health giving properties 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 Orient als have bave been eating seaweed for ages and occidental visitors generally have regard led ed it as a primitive habit |