50 Report of the Department of Animal Husbandky ok the 



amount of bran present. The bran contains from 10 per ct. to 

 12 per ct. of protein and the hulls from 3 per ct. to 5 per ct. 



Samples of Buckwheat Middlings Collkcted in New York During 1898 



AND 1899. 



Station Sample: Where Ton selling 



number. collected. price. 



426.. Smithboro $13 00 



433.. Horncllsville 14 00 



499.. Fulton 14 00 



511 . . Watertown 14 00 



530. . Binghaniton 14 00 



Station Sample: W here Ton selling 



number. collected. ijrice. 



659.. Delhi $16 00 



728 . . Lawyersville 



096. . Oneonta 13 00 



510.. Watertown 14 00 



No one of the lots of buckwheat middlings sampled seems to 

 have been of inferior quality. There is seen to be a "wide varia- 

 tion in the protein content, however, as it ranges from 24.8 per 

 ct. to 33.75 per ct. in the various samples. 



MILLING offals FROM WHEAT. 



The offals from milling wheat are probably the oldest, best 

 known and most popular by-product feeding stuffs found in the 

 market. These consist of tlie brans, middlings and low gi-ade 

 flours. 



The prominent differences between these products and the 

 original wheat kernels, and especially between these and the fine 



