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cereal breakfast food manufactory, some gluten feed or cotton- 

 seed meal to bring up the protein content. They usually con- 

 tain considerable indigestible oat hulls and the price asked is as 

 much as for better feeds. 



Molasses which has been used for a long time as a food for 

 farm animals in Europe and in the South, is gradually coming 

 into use in New England. Malt sprouts or brewers' grains are 

 the principal absorbents used with the molasses and the mixture 

 is put out as molasses-dried-grains. Refuse molasses is also 

 used as a feed in other ways but not in connection with protein 

 feeds. 



The principal starchy or carbohydrate feeds are corn meal, 

 hominy meal, provender, corn and oat feeds, and oat feeds. Of 

 these, corn meal is without a doubt the most generally used 

 although hominy meal is becoming more favorably known. 

 Hominy meal is a by-product from the manufacture of the hom- 

 iny meal and the grits used as a human food. It consists of the 

 softer parts of the com kernel. It contains about 5% more 

 fat and 2% more protein than straight corn meal. It seems to 

 Tdc about 10% less digestible than com, but because of its dry 

 •condition, has about the same feeding value. Com and oat feeds, 

 and oat feeds are refuse from the manufacture of cereal break- 

 fast foods. Often a small amount of a more concentrated feed is 

 added to increase their protein content. At present prices they 

 are expensive feeds, carrying as they do a large amount of indi- 

 gestible fiber in the form of oat hulls. One other starchy feed 

 that it may be well to mention, is dried molasses-beet-pulp. 

 The product consists of the residual pulp from sugar beet manu- 

 facture, with which has been mixed a considerable amount of 

 waste molasses. The mixture is thoroughly dried before put- 

 ting on the market. It has the quality of increasing greatly in 

 bulk when moistened and it might be well to wet the product 

 before feeding. 



Why are only protein and fat guaranteed ? Do the other con- 

 stituents of a food have no feeding value? are questions often 

 asked. Protein is guaranteed because it is by far the most 

 necessary and costly nutrient for the farmer to purchase. Fat 

 is guaranteed firstly, because it furnishes 2\ times as much 

 -energy as carbohydrates, and secondly, because an excess inter- 



