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No farmer should think of buying this cottonseed feed for $25 

 per ton, as compared with $32 for the choice meal. Gluten 

 meal we used to have, but we do not have much of it now. 



• GLUTEN FEEDS. 



If there were in the market gluten meal such as we used to 

 have, it would figure out $40.75 feeding value per ton. There 

 are however gluten feeds in the market that if you must buy 

 carbohydrates, will give you good values for the money, but I 

 have always held that when a farmer went to the store for grain 

 he should not go to buy carbohydrates but to buy protein. Most 

 of the gluten feeds will carry about 24 per cent of crude protein, 

 or 20.4 per cent of digestible protein, 49.8 per cent carbohy- 

 drates, and 9.1 per cent of fat, or 70.3 per cent of equivalent 

 carbohydrate material. The large amount of fat brings up the 

 equivalent carbohydrate material. The protein in 100 pounds 

 is worth 55.1 cents, and the carbohydrates $1,265, which would 

 make the feed worth $36.20 on the basis of corn meal at $29 per 

 ton and cottonseed meal at $32, and it is selling today for $31 

 and $32 a ton. So if you must buy these carbohydrate mate- 

 rials, gluten feed is an economical form in which to buy them. 



Distillers' grains would on the basis we have used be worth 

 about $34, costing $33 in the market. Union grains would be 

 worth $33, probably about what they cost. 



UNSEED OIE MEAE. 



Linseed oil meal guaranteed 36 per cent protein will carry 

 30.6 digestible protein, 38.5 digestible carbohydrates, and 2.7 

 per cent fat. The fat is equal to 6.1 per cent carbohydrates, 

 which added to 38.5 gives 44.6 per cent equivalent carbohydrate 

 material. On this basis we find that the linseed oil meal is 

 worth $32.60 and it cost about $32 per ton. If you want to buy 

 carbohydrates as well as protein, linseed oil meal is just as cheap 

 at present as cottonseed meal. This is due to the fact that lin- 

 seed oil is cheaper and cottonseed meal is much higher than 

 formerly. Whereas linseed oil meal two years ago was prac- 

 tically out of the market because of its high price, it is now 

 abundant in the market and there is no reason why it should not 

 be considered an economical feed. 



