The Laclede blade., 1906-10-27
Writes Book on Scientific
Stock Feeding. Etc.
THE MOST REMARKABLE BOOK
That Has Eyer Been Issued and VIII
Save the Farmers, Btookmen. Fruit
0rowers ana Gardeners MilliOns
OF Dollars Every Year.

ry Remedies and Other Valuable In
formation" has just been brought ou
by Adolph Kramer, analytical chem
list. 1t is a careful scientific study O.
the relative values of all kinds o.
stock and poultry foods and theil
proper use, and gives a vast amount
Of information and analytical matter
regarding various commercial prod.
ucts now on the market.
This book contains valuable infor.
nation, the author says, for the farm
or and stockman, aud also the drug
gist, or any person who is engaged in
making these goods, and that he does
not know of any one class of goods of
which there is any more "fake" busi-
ness than in manufacturing and SELL
ing the so-called stock foods which
are now on the market. The various
stock foods and poultry foods on the
market cost from $4,000 to $4,000 per
ton and sell for $4,000 to $4,000
per ton, and the professor says he
does not know of any business that
has ever been more profitable than
this. While there is merit in some of
these goods, the price is entirely too
high, and will prove loss in such
feeding, and he would refer you to a
number of feeding stations; but, he
says, there is no doubt that if you will
make your own stock foods or have
your druggist do it for you, and make
it after one of the various formulas
given in this book, it would be pay
ing investment, as an experiment was
made in feeding corn alone and in
feeding corn and stock food prepar-
ed from one of the formulas given in
this book, which costs about II to 2
cents pound, made saving Of Tic
per hundred pounds over feeding corn
alone, besides giving the animal fine
and glossy appearance for sale. This,
the author says, is business; but when
you pay $4,000 to $4,000 per ton
and more, it will certainly be losing
investment. Prof. Kramer says there
are also many dry mixed feeds on the
market for "skinning" the consumer,
having a feeding value of $4.OO per
ton and selling for $500. Many of
these are injurious to stock, so there
would be a loss AT BOTH ENDS. He
says the medicinal properties of these
articles are less to be recommended
than any other characteristic and that
they are not compounded with refer
ence to any particular ailment Of the
animal, but are simply conglomerate
mixtures of the cheapest drugs. These
drugs are not present in sufficient
quantities, when fed according to dir
ections, to have any appreciable effect
on the animal, even when they are
not mixed 80 the action of one would
the action of the other.
And then the author goes en- and
gives illustrations regarding the pro-
prietary articles on the market and
says that it is absurd to think of ad-
ministering such foods and such med
icines to the animal, which are simply
mixtures of the cheap
sst drugs.
Valuable Formulas
are given in the book, giving the for
nula and analysis of all the promi-
1ent stock and poultry foods, veterin- t
lry remedies and various commercial '
PRODUCTS which have a remarkable +
ale; for instance, to make every kind i
# sheep dip, the best to cost to manu- l
acture about 25c per gallon and sells b
or s1.00 to s1.50 per gallon; some a
which cost $1.25 to make, t
ell for SOL. 90; every kind of fspraying '