596 



Repoet ox Inspection Work of the 



Table II. — Approximate Percentage of Screenings in Wheat Bran. 



BUCKWHEAT BY-PRODUCTS. 



Buckwheat shorts or buckwheat middlings are denned as those 

 portions of the buckwheat grains immediately inside of the hulls, 

 after separation from the flour. 



These by-products as they appear upon the markets of this State 

 are frequently found to contain an admixture of various amounts 

 of hulls, which greatly lower the nutritive value of the feed. 



Mixtures of buckwheat middlings and buckwheat hulls, where 

 sold as buckwheat middlings, are regarded as misbranded. They are 

 also considered misbranded when sold under the name buckwheat 

 feed, unless the presence of hulls is plainly stated. 



The term " Buckwheat Feed " should be applied only to the entire 

 kernel ground to a meal. 



Table III gives the analysis price per ton and approximate per- 

 centage of hulls in several samples of buckwheat middlings and so- 

 called buckwheat feeds. 



The analyses given in this table show little uniformity in the 

 composition of buckwheat by-products, the protein varying from 

 11.9 per ct. to 37.5 per ct.; fat 1.3 per ct. to 8.5 per ct.; fiber, 5.7 

 per ct. to 29.8 per ct. and the amount of hulls 5 per ct. to 66 per ct. 



