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any other feed. Merely because alfalfa is a fine word, we do 

 not want to conjure with it. Nor do we want to buy oat hulls 

 as the basis of a feed, and in most of the dairy feeds the oat 

 hulls are there, masquerade them as they please. Most of these 

 low grade feeds we have to shut out, for economy's sake. 



Ques. I would like to inquire in relation to the so called 

 Daisy dairy feed which has been sold in quite large quantities 

 in Androscoggin County. 



Ans. The manufacturers of the Daisy dairy feed are either 

 putting up a very good bluff, or else they are honest and mis- 

 taken in their goods. They wanted to know how in the world 

 it happened that we were such inexperienced chemists that we 

 could not find more than 12 per cent of protein in the goods, 

 where they had guaranteed 16 per cent. I sent them four sam- 

 ples which we had found to carry 13 1-3 per cent (the highest), 

 and they found no more protein than we chemists did. Wher- 

 ever we have found the goods I have directed them to change 

 the guarantee or stop the sale. I think the matter will be 

 straightened out. 



Ques. What is the meal? 



Ans. It is some oat hull refuse mixed with a wheat offal and 

 other refuses. I do not think they are using much to bring up 

 the protein. 



Ques. How would that do to feed in the place where we 

 have fed wheat bran? 



Ans. It would be more expensive than wheat bran at $30, in 

 my judgment. Unfortunately the price of most of these goods 

 makes them as prohibitive as bran. 



Prof. Hills. We found a certain line of feeds pretty 

 heavily laden with weed seeds. We found one brand which 

 contained nearly 20 per cent of weed seeds, equivalent to three 

 weeds for every square foot of a 100 acre farm. The man 

 had bought and paid for these in a molasses feed. One of the 

 molasses feeds had none, and in one or two of them the weed 

 seeds were there but had apparently been killed in some way. 

 In several of the brands, however, there were noticeable amounts 

 of weed seeds, and I think it behooves a person who is buying 

 that class of goods to make certain that he is not seeding his 

 farm with weeds. 



