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Proprietary mixed goods |17.50 to |24.00 per ton. 



Gluten meal 24.00 to 25.00 " 



Gluten feeds 20.00 to 22.00 " 



Hominy feeds 17. 50 to 19.50 " 



Sugar corn feed (corn bran mostly).... 17.00 to 18.00 



Malt sprouts 15 . 00 



Mixed wheat offals 20.00 or less. 



These figures show conclusively that the proprietary mixed 

 goods containing 20 per ct. and upward of oat hulls are bought 

 at a loss of generally not less than $5 per ton and doubtless 

 often more. If farmers foolishly think that it is desirable to 

 have in the grain mixture some fibrous material like oat hulls, 

 let them hire someone to grind up their straw stacks or the 

 mows of poor hay and mix the good grain with these. It is 

 pitiful to see farmers of limited means paying grain prices for 

 an ingredient in certain commercial cattle foods which is worth 

 no more than the poorest coarse fodders around the barn. Such 

 costly business management seems to be the fruit of either wil- 

 ful ignorance or a lazy indifference. 



The manufacturer who uses oat hulls in such a way as to 

 deceive his customers is simply dishonest. 



One of the most glaring impositions discovered is the case of 

 sample 246, representing an '^ oat feed " found on sale at Homer. 

 The oat feed (?) contained only 1.7 per ct. of protein and over 

 30 per ct. of fibre. It was nothing but oat hulls. The selling 

 price was |15 per ton! Comment is unnecessary. 



The wise course for farmers to pursue is to purchase either 

 standard by-product feeding stuffs or the entire grains, such as 

 corn and oats, whole or ground. At |1 per hundred for corn 

 meal and 40 cents per bushel for oats, a mixture of equal parts 

 by weight of these two grains can be secured at no greater price 

 than what is asked for certain oat feeds. If hominy feed is 

 used in place of the corn meal the cost would be lessened. 



