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meal last summer for $23. I bought some last summer that I think was 

 absolutely pure, but you can't tell. This winter I bought cottonseed meal; 

 the color was all right, except you could see little hulls in it, and when I 

 went to Cincinnati I told the fellow where I bought the meal. I hadn't 

 paid for the meal, and I told him I got in a load, and kicked about that 

 cottonseed meal, and he said: "All right; what is it?" I said it was adulter- 

 ated, and he says: "Have you got it at home?" I said "Yes." He says: 

 "Did you pay $25 for it?" and I told him I did. He said: "Send it back; 

 it is worth more money." When they came to examine the meal they said 

 that was true, there were some hulls in it, but it was all right with that 

 exception. I would thinlv that if some of these people would try cotton- 

 seed meal in limited quantities they would like it, I would not want to 

 feed more than two or three pounds a day, but, according to the amount 

 of protein it contains, it is worth three times as much as bran for that 

 purpose, and where a man feeds like I do— silage and corn fodder— cotton- 

 seed meal is the cheapest feed to get. 



President: I don't know of an agent in Indiana for cottonseed meal. 

 Does anybody? I don't know of anybody that sells it. You have got to 

 send out of the State to get it. Now, cottonseed meal and oil meal and 

 gluten meal are all in the same class; they are all highly concentrated pro- 

 tein feeds. I consider that oil meal has a value by itself over the others 

 in that it conditions animals as other feeds do not. It is often used as the 

 main ingredient in condition powders. We have to pay an enormous price 

 for a package of condition powders, when it is perhaps not worth any 

 more than ordinary oil meal. The general character of the feed is such 

 that it brings out a nice glossy coat, and here it has a value outside of 

 the amount of protein in it, and it does not cost ordinarily more than 

 cottonseed meal, although I doubt if one is able to buy cottonseed meal to- 

 day for less than $30 a ton. 



Mr. Burnside: I got that meal within the last ten days, but I don't 

 suppose I could get it now. 



President: Of course, the feeding question is the all-important ques- 

 tion with our farmers, but I consider gluten meal a very profitable feed. 

 I purchased five tons for feeding at our place, and I could not ask for a 

 feed to be relished more, and I don't know of anything that will give a 

 more favorable or rapid increase in production. The question was asked 

 if the manufacturer guaranteed the composition of the cottonseed meal. 

 In the east, cottonseed meal is oftentimes adulterated, and so is oil meal, 

 and it may be true that gluten meal is, but I have never heard the same 

 complaint about that that I have about cottonseed meal. 



Mr. Mills: Do you mean the mixed gluten? 



