The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
Continental Foods,

Continental Foods.
The considerate feeder of animals
will study their tastes, their likes and
| dislikes, and try to render the food
agreeable. He well knows that the
pleasure of eating adds to the thrift OF
production of the animal. It does not
depend wholly upon The nutritive quail
tiles of the food, but also upon its agree
able favor. Mere flavoring materials
often greatly improve food. 1t is not
difficult to so combine food as to rem
der the compound very appetizing.
| Those continental foods which are 50
Landed, and for which such remarkable
claims as to nutritive quality are made,
are generally compounded mostly of
cheap materials, and then favored to
suit the appetite. They are then adver-
tised as having wonderfully nutritive
power, and as curing all the ills that
animal 'fesh is heir to-" They are
made up of materials that every feeder
has within easy reach, and are usually
sold at six times their real value. They
are each and all such manifest hum
bugs, when they contain so little, and
50 much is claimed for them, that we
have uniformly refused to advertise
them and thus assist in deluding farm
ers into purchasing them at their ex-
trayagant prices. DR.. Lawes, of
Rothamstead, fully exposed tho preten-
sions of Thorley, of England, who had
been deludiDg English feeders for years.
He showed that the real value of his
compound as food was only about the
same as corn meal. although it sold for
eight dollars per 100 pounds. And
this seems to be the stardard price for
all the mixtures in this country. light
cents per pound seems to be lust the
figure that satisfies these vendors of
continental foods. And when we
consider the probable cost of one and
one-half cents per pound. an addition
of over 500 per cent. would seem to be
liberal proht.
All ANIMALS are fond of sweet foods,
and most of these continental COM
pounds in England are rendered sweet
by using the locust bean, which con-
tains large amount of sugar; and our
compounders may import them for this
purpose. or they may use a cheap mo-
lasses orglucose sugar. We have no
doubt. from our eXper ments, that cheap
mo asses may be used at a profit in
feeding to render the food more palata-
Dle. In fattening attic, one quart of
molasses dissolved in two gallons of
water is used to moiston the short cut
hay for four steers, and then the meal
given is mixed with this. The sweet
water tlavors the mass, so that they eat
it with great avidity. 1t must be adj
mitted that the highest skill consists in
knowing just the right adaptation of
food to the animal, and this re luires
careful study of the quality of all the
different foods used for, or that may
be used for animals. And this requires
also a practical knowledge of favors.
But besides this the feeder should know
the effect of different foods upon the an
imal stomach, whether laxative or con-
stipating, sedative or stimulating, 10.
In other words, every feeder should
know how to compound continental
fool for his own stock, and not subject
himself to paying four prices for the
want of this knowledge. The principal
advantage derived from these COM
pounds comes from their palatableness
and laxative elements. Animals gem
really suffer more from constipation than
from any other one source; and it is by
reason of this that we have so often ad- |
vised feeders to use little oil meal, or
better still, five to six per cent of flax
seed. ground with oats and corn, as q
Eood for horses especially, and also for
other stock. This small amount of
iaxseed- one.sixteenth to one-twen-
tieth-also improves the flavor of the
iood.
We give formula for a continental |
God equal to any of the high priced ar
icles in the market: