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Show Stockmen Warned Against "Super" Mineral Feeds FT. COLLINS, COLO. Stockmen Stock-men should be suspicious of mineral min-eral feeds for which extravagant claims are made, warns officials of the Colorado A. & M. College. If farm animals are suffering from lack of any mineral, it will likely be either common salt, phosphorous or calcium, rather than one of the many other minerals min-erals which some feeds supposedly suppos-edly contain, A & M College experts ex-perts explain. A lack . of phosphorous is shown by the tendency of animals ani-mals to chew bones, stocks or lick the ground. The mineral can be supplied through feeding bone meal with 30 per cent salt. Calcium Cal-cium may be lacking where the roughage is largely wild hay, sorghum, corn fodder or stover, but the deficiency can be made up by feeding the stock ground limestone, are the points emphasized empha-sized by the college. As for common salt, much of . the rock salt on the market is too hard for livestock to realize much benefit from it, consequently consequent-ly loose salt is the best form. The full discussion about minerals min-erals for feeding farm animals, as well as many other facts of interest to stock feeders, are contained con-tained in a bulletin, entitled "Livestock Feeds and Feeding," published by the Extension Service Ser-vice at the Colorado A & M |