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COMMENTS. 



It is gratifying to note that the unmixed, or what may perhaps 

 properly be termed, the standard, feeding stuffs, such as cotton- 

 seed and linseed oil meals, the gluten meals and feeds, the 

 brewer's residues and hominy feeds, are of uniformly good 

 quality and are practically as good as the guarantees. The only 

 important instance of inferior quality in these classes of goods 

 is the case of Mayflower Linseed Meal manufactured by the 

 Mayflower Mills, Fort Wayne, Ind. It is believed that this 

 brand has been withdrawn from the market. It is clearly 

 fraudulent in character, as the protein was only about half the 

 proportion represented to be present. 



The most numerous discrepancies between guarantees and 

 actual composition occur with the mixed goods of which oat 

 hulls are undoubtedly a component. These are the goods which 

 in many instances bear such brand names as " chop feed," " corn 

 and oat feed," " mixed feed," etc., which lead the purchaser to 

 conclude that the mixtures are made up of corn and oats. They 

 have the appearance of being corn and oats, because corn meal 

 or hominy feed and oat hulls are present. The protein guaran- 

 teed is usually less than 10 per ct., often less than 9 per ct. and 

 in some brands less than 8 per ct., but even these low percent- 

 ages are not always maintained because of an evident overdose 

 of the worthless oat hulls. 



The prominence of oat hulls in some of these mixtures is seen 

 in the large proportion of fibre which they carry. The only 

 grain product which supplies fibre generously is oat hulls, and 

 when a mixture containing a considerable proportion of corn 

 meal or hominy feed shows 12 per ct. of fiber and upwards, it is 

 safe to conclude that oat hulls have been introduced. The same 

 is true often when the fiber is less than 12 per ct. Attention 

 is invited to the percentages of fiber given in the preceding 

 tables. 



Many genuine mixtures of corn and oats are sold. These seem 

 to be more abundant, that is, they constitute a larger propor- 



