New Yoek Ageicultukal Experiment Station. 



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Samples of Cotton-Seed Meal Collected in New York During 1898 and 



1899. 



Analyses of Samples of Cotton-Seed Meal. 



.2S 



ca 



438. 

 439. 

 465. 

 487. 

 490. 

 500. 

 518. 

 545. 

 552. 

 553. 

 656. 

 660. 

 672. 

 073. 

 692. 

 705. 

 706. 





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a 

 ts . 



X3 S* 



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t- tn 

 cd 







Perct. 

 0.51 

 8.15 

 6.00 

 6.86 

 6.54 

 6.19 

 6.02 

 5.98 

 3.03 

 5.90 

 6.00 

 0.85 

 5.69 

 5.92 

 5.90 

 5.39 

 0.50 



Perct. 



46.75 

 36.25 

 42.25 

 46.00 

 43.56 

 41.68 

 48.81 

 46.56 

 10.75 

 50.69 

 43.75 

 45.50 

 49.06 

 44.38 

 43.43 

 28.68 

 46.56 



Perct. 

 5.07 

 5.29 

 5.20 

 6.10 

 7.30 

 6.82 

 4.68 

 5.08 



33.37 

 2.92 

 5.81 

 4.27 

 4.68 

 5.59 

 7.24 



16.57 

 5.38 



Per ct . 

 13.2 

 24.7 

 20.1 

 14.3 

 15.4 

 12.7 

 16.4 

 13.7 

 6.6 

 13.7 



Per ct. 

 23.78 

 34.74 

 29.62 

 25.99 

 27.86 

 26.28 

 24.59 

 25.71 

 42.03 

 23.82 

 23.24 

 25.56 

 22.33 

 23 . 94 

 23.51 

 34.02 

 24.49 



Per ct. 



12.79 



8.15 



9.88 



8.70 



7.56 



11.92 



8.85 



9.27 



2.41 



10.43 



14.26 



10.05 



11.03 



13.16 



12.78 



7.29 



10.88 



0.21 45.64 5.44 



Average starch and 



sugar, eight samples 14.9 



25.05 10.82 



In all but two cases the samples of cotton-seed meal have been 

 found to have a satisfactory composition. Two samples, ISTos. 439 

 and Y05, showed so low a protein content as to justify the con- 

 clusion that they were from adulterated stock. They were dark 

 colored. There is no question that adulterated meal is in the 

 market, as is clearly proven in Bulletin 'No. 56 from the Massa- 

 chusetts Experiment Station, where the analyses are given of 



