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Analyses of Samples — Continued. 



.2 a 



SQ 



^ 



480. Chop 



482. Chop 



492. Chop 



497. Chop 



548. Chop 



677. Chop 



695. Chop 



697. Chop 



703. Chop 



704. Chop 

 542. Chop 



Perot. 



feed 13.04 



feed 10.99 



feed 9.11 



feed 11.30 



feed 8 . 97 



feed 11.38 



feed 9.92 



feed 9.07 



feed 10.14 



feed 8 . 60 



feed oats 5 . 34 



Average of chop feed, 

 excluding last analy- 

 sis 10.06 



648. H. 0. defi. feed 



554. X oat feed 



657 . Schumaker's stock food, 



corn, oats and barley.. 

 420. Corn, oat and barley 



feed 



650 . Wheat feed 



8.83 

 9.09 



8.54 3.91 

 6.72 6.15 



2.81 9.23 9.27 42.7 64.84 3.79 



8.50 14.78 61.25 3.02 



6.31 24.31 15.0 54.02 2.49 



3.41 12.69 

 1.47 11.19 



7.53 .... 62.48 5.06 

 9.93 36.7 63.95 4.37 



9.22 4.04 11.00 16.56 



56.09 3.09 



It is important to properly intorpret the facts displayed in the 

 above tables in their practical relations to the stockman. It is to 

 be noted in the first place that the prices of these various mixed 

 feeds are in many cases fully equal to what a mixture of whole 

 com and oats would have cost at the time the samples were taken. 

 This being so, it is fair to inquire whether the by-product com- 

 binations of the class we are discussing are equal in value to the 

 entire cereal grain.s. The principal fact to be considered in this 

 connection is that nearly all of the feeds mentioned above contain 

 a generous proportion of oat offals, largely hulls. This is shown 

 in two ways, viz.: by the high proportion of woody fiber and by 

 the low protein content. Oats contain more fiber than any other 



