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The use of " oat clippings " under the name " oat middlings " 

 or " oat shorts " is clearly intended to mislead and will be held as 

 misbranding. 



Oat feed: The term " oat feed " should not be used. If oat by- 

 products are used in compounding a feed, each ingredient should be 

 named separately. 



Oat clippings: " Oat clippings " have been defined as being " the 

 hairs, oat dust, ends of oats and light oats separated from the oat 

 kernel by the clipping process." 



As they appear on the market in feed mixtures they seldom corre- 

 spond with this definition. 



In the process of clipping, the oats are run into rapidly revolving 

 drums or cylinders, where they are rubbed together until the fuzzy 

 ends, small portions of the oat groats and more or less hulls and light 

 oats are removed. Coincident with this process is the separation of 

 the refuse matter from the grain, such as dust, dirt, chaff, straw, 

 stems and weed seeds, or in other words, the clipping and screening 

 or cleaning of the grain is often done in one process. Apparently the 

 clippings and more or less refuse are run together and sold or mixed in 

 feeds under the name " oat clippings." 



It is plain that this term is not properly descriptive. For this 

 reason it has been necessary in this bulletin to go furtlier and state 

 exactly what is found. If clipjiings, screenings and weed seeds are 

 used thej^ should be so named. 



The- analysis and composition of several samples of so-called 

 clippings appear in the table on the opposite page. 



Buckwheat middlings: Mixtures of buckwheat middlings and buck- 

 wheat hulls are often sold as buckwheat middlings. Such samples 

 are regarded as misbranded. 



Cottonseed hull hran is a misnomer. It is only another name for 

 finely ground cottonseed hulls containing more or less lint. 



Rice bran is defined as the cuticle beneath the hull. This term is 

 often erroneously apphed to a mixture of rice bran and rice hulls. 



Bran, shorts or middlings: It quite frequently happens that these 

 terms are used alone. This may lead to confusion. They should 

 therefore never be used without the qualifying name of the cereal 

 from which they are derived. 



Example : Wheat bran, oat shorts, wheat middlings. 



Malted barley: This term should never be applied to brewers' 

 grains. 



Linseed meal is preferable to the term " oil meal." 



Gluten: The term " gluten " is not sufficient but should appear as 

 " gluten feed " or " gluten meal " as the facts may warrant. 



