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ent they will settle to the bottom of the tumbler and can readily 

 be detected, as a black sediment, by looking through the bottom 

 of the glass. All meals contain some hulls but an excess is 

 readily detected by the bottom of the tumbler being well covered 

 with them. 



Cottonseed feed is a product made by one or two concerns in 

 the South that make a business of buying hulls as they come 

 from the oil mills for the lint that is on them. The lint is 

 removed, treated by a chemical process to purify it and sold in 

 the markets for making gun cotton and various other purposes. 

 The hulls which are left contain some meats and have some 

 feeding value but not sufficient to make them marketable. 

 Therefore, to dispose of them, they are finely ground, mixed 

 with an equal weight of choice cottonseed meal and sold as 

 cottonseed feed with a guaranty of one-half that of cottonseed 

 meal. There is nothing fraudulent about this feed. It is sold 

 for just what it is and no attempt is made by the manufacturers, 

 at least, to deceive anyone. The price, however, for these goods 

 in ]\Iaine is much more than half that asked for choice cotton- 

 seed meal and often over 75 per cent of that of the best meals. 

 The farmers of ^Nlaine can hardly afford to pay freight on hulls 

 from the South for feeding purposes even if they were shipped 

 f. o. b. from southern points. 



Another class of feeds which I think should be especially 

 mentioned is the adulterated wheat offals which were sold 

 until the change in the feed law this year, as mixed feeds. Now 

 they are labeled "feeds" without the word "mixed" attached, it 

 having been ruled that the term "mixed feed" could only be 

 applied to straight wheat offals. These adulterated feeds are 

 made usually by mixing with a straight mixed feed about 25 

 per cent of finely ground corn cobs which have practically no 

 feeding value. By the addition of this material the protein 

 content of the feed is reduced from about 16 per cent to about 

 12 and in many instances less. These feeds are sold usually 

 for only one or two dollars less per ton than the pure goods 

 but their feeding value is reduced one-fourtii. It is very evi- 

 dent, therefore, that such feeds are not economical to buy and 

 should be avoided. But few of them were found on the market 

 at our last inspection and it is gratifying to note that their sale 

 is decreasing. 



