International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1905?
Description:
Advertisement for International Stock Food Tonic sold by the International Stock Food Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The advertisement emphasizes the food is medicinal and lists a number of named medicinal ingredients. From the advertisement: "Any Chemist, Druggist or Veterinarian will tell you that the medicinal ingredients we use, when properly compounded will make a good animal tonic and aid to digestion, and is perfectly safe for all kinds of animals in working, growing, breeding, milking or fattening condition." International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, a Minnesota-based entrepreneur for whom the town of Savage, Minnesota, was named. Savage bought record-breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1905?
Description:
Advertisement for livestock feed sold by the International Stock Food Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Poster designed by Harry Millard. International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, a Minnesota-based entrepreneur for whom the town of Savage, Minnesota, was named. Savage bought record-breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company(Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1905?
Description:
Advertisement for International Stock Food animal feed and its use as a hog cholera preventative. International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, a Minnesota-based entrepreneur for whom the town of Savage, Minnesota, was named. Savage bought record-breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1902
Description:
Advertisement for feed sold by the International Stock Food Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Three testimonials from O.E. Countryman of Spencer, North Dakota, Oren J. Spalte of Pleasantville, Iowa, and John D. Marshall of Walton, Kansas, about the weight gain possible by pigs on the feed are included. "Schooley's Beauty" is featured on the poster, a Durock Jersey sow with a litter of 11 pigs. Text from poster, "International Stock Food 3 Feeds For One Cent Makes Sows Give More And Better Milk." International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, a Minnesota-based entrepreneur for whom the town of Savage, Minnesota, was named. Savage bought record-breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1905?
Description:
Advertisement for animal feed sold by the International Stock Food Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Purported to tone horses, make cows produce more milk, speed growth, and cure or prevent diseases. International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, a Minnesota-based entrepreneur for whom the town of Savage, Minnesota, was named. Savage bought record-breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1905?
Description:
International Stock Food Company poster showing Images as follows: steer with beef cuts illustrated, number 111; pig, number 124; horse skeleton, number 108 and horse, number 123. International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, a Minnesota-based entrepreneur for whom the town of Savage, Minnesota, was named. Savage bought record-breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1906
Description:
Advertisement for livestock feed sold by the International Stock Food Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Poster shows two sickly runts and their weight gain 3 months later, after consuming the feeder.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1905?
Description:
Advertisement for livestock feed sold by the International Stock Food Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The feed is purported to be the "quick cattle and hog grower and fattener" and includes farmer testimonials in support of that claim. International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, a Minnesota-based entrepreneur for whom the town of Savage, Minnesota, was named. Savage bought record-breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1905?
Description:
Advertisement for International Stock Food animal feed that purports to make a hog grow to a large size. International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, a Minnesota-based entrepreneur for whom the town of Savage, Minnesota, was named. Savage bought record-breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1905?
Description:
Advertisement for animal feed sold by the International Stock Food Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota. International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, a Minnesota-based entrepreneur for whom the town of Savage, Minnesota, was named. Savage bought record-breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1905?
Description:
Advertisement for livestock feed sold by the International Stock Food Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota. International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, a Minnesota-based entrepreneur for whom the town of Savage, Minnesota, was named. Savage bought record-breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1907
Description:
Advertisement for International animal food with testimonial from William T. Dever, a Chester White Swine breeder. He notes his Chester White Boar, Protection Chief, had "won more First Prizes and Champion Ribbons than any hog living or dead" because of his use of International Stock Food mixed with his feed twice a day. International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, a Minnesota-based entrepreneur for whom the town of Savage, Minnesota, was named. Savage bought record-breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1905?
Description:
Image with two black pigs (possibly Berkshire) under the title," INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD TONIC." International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, a Minnesota-based entrepreneur for whom the town of Savage, Minnesota, was named. Savage bought record-breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
International Stock Food Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1907?
Description:
Similar image to umn191729 without the advertisement. Protection Chief was an American Chester White Boar that won may contests. William T. Dever of Lucasville, Ohio, bought the boar from Willis Whinery of Salem, Ohio, in 1899. International Stock Food Company was owned by Marion Savage, a Minnesota-based entrepreneur for whom the town of Savage, Minnesota, was named. Savage bought record-breaking harness race horse Dan Patch to help promote his business.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Farmer John P. Turner is feeding his pigs in a large pen adjacent to the barn. Turner came to Nicollet County in 1870 from Vasa. After farming in various locations, he moved to Lower Oshawa Township in 1892.
H.G. Laveral (right) and unidentified herdsman dipping a pig in lime and sulphur solution to control mange at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul campus. The poster in the background, produced by the University of Minnesota Extension Service, shows a hog louse and a hog mange mite.
Dr. Al Leman with piglets. Leman was an extension veterinarian at the University of Minnesota. In 1974, he helped to organize a conference for Minnesota pig farmers. Leman left the University of Minnesota in 1986. The University has continued to sponsor the conference, and named it in honor of Dr. Leman in 1992.
Hog restrained for a medical procedure. This photograph documents the University's Short Course for veterinarians, a form of continuing education that was available to all Minnesota veterinarians.