68 Report of the Department of Animal Husbandry of the 



Director "Woods of the Maine Station gave tliis product a careful 

 examination and liis report concerning it includes the following 

 statements. 



" These goods were sent to an expert on food mixtures and 

 adulterations at the Connecticut Experiment Station who reports 

 as follows : ' I have examined Blatchf ord's calf meal under the 

 microscope and find it contains linseed meal, some product from 

 the wheat kernel, some product from the bean kernel and a little 

 fenugreek. The linseed meal appears to be the chief constituent. 

 The wheat product is bran, middlings or some similar product con- 

 sisting of starchy matter mixed with more or less of the seed coats. 

 Bean bran was present in considerable amount and more or less of 

 the starchy matter.' 



" In a letter just at hand from llr. J. Barwell, the proprietor of 

 these goods, he says: 'Regarding the ingredients, I cannot give 

 you the exact constituents of it, but I may say that it is composed 

 mostly of locust bean meal with leguminous seeds such as lentils, 

 etc., and oleaginous seeds such as flax-seed, fenugreek and anise 

 seed, all cleaned, hulled and gTound together and thoroughly 

 well cooked. There is no cheap mill food and no low grade feed 

 enters into this composition. I am prepared to go into any court 

 in the United States and make an afiida\'it that there is no farmer 

 in the United States that can compound Blatchford's calf meal 

 for less than $3.50 per hundred.' 



" Locust bean meal which Mr. Barwell claims to be the chief 

 constituent of Blatchford's calf meal is practically not used in tliis 

 country as a cattle feed. The average of ten English and Ger- 

 man analyses show it to carry: Water, 14,96 per ct. ; ash, 2,53 

 per ct. ; protein, 5.86 per ct.; crude fiber, 6,39 per ct. ; nitrogen- 

 free-extract, 68.98 per ct, ; fat, 1,28 per ct, 



" It is evident from the chemical analyses that locust bean meal 

 can not be the chief constituent of Blatchford's calf meal, but that 

 the microscopist is correct that linseed meal is the chief constituent. 

 Locust bean meal has only six per cent of protein and in order to 

 make a mixture carrying from twenty-six to thirty-three per ct. 



