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Tabl]3 n. — Number and Kinds of Feeding Stuffs Analyzed, 1911-'12— con''d. 



The compounded feeds have greatly increased in number and many 

 of them are composed in part, some largely, of inferior materials. 

 This is particularly true of molasses feeds, in which are frequently 

 found such adulterants as rice hulls, oat hulls, buckwheat hulls, corn 

 cobs, peanut hulls, screenings, chaff, weed seeds and sand. 



SCREENINGS. 



Exceptions will doubtless be taken to the classification of weed 

 seeds and screenings as inferior materials. Already, much has been 

 claimed for the value of these substances for feeding purposes; but 

 it must be remembered that screenings are grain refuses, which, 

 coming as they do from different sources, are composed of a variety 

 of materials, good and bad, and vary widely in their composition 

 and digestibility. 



Samples composed largely of broken and small sized grains of the 

 cereal from which they are screened, such as the better grades of 

 wheat screenings, doubtless rank fairly well in digestibility. On the 

 other hand screenings containing chaff, straw, dust, dirt, and other 

 low grade refuse, include much highly indigestible material. 



Samples of weed seeds sometimes contain harmful as well as unde- 

 sirable varieties and it has been shoAvn repeatedly that unground 

 seeds will pass through the digestive system of the animal without 

 losing their viability. Many of them will germinate upon reaching 

 the soil. 



Until these refuses are graded or standardized and rated according 

 to their true value, tlieir presence in cattle feeds cannot be looked 

 upon with favor and the feeder cannot afford to purchase at grain 

 prices such nondescript materials. 



SAND IN FEEDING STUFFS. 



In the last feeding stuffs bulletin* published by this Station, it was 

 shown that many feeds, noticeably samples composed in part of 

 screenings, contained appreciable amounts of sand. 



♦ N. Y. Agr Exp. Sta. Bull. No. 340. 



