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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Off. Doc. 



Two samples of buckwheat were received for analysis: 



No. 



12S 

 141 



Manufacturer. 



Snyder Bros., Dalton, Pa., 

 Snyder Bros., Dalton, Pa., 



Dealer. 



Snyder Bros., 

 Snyder Bros., 



Price 

 per 

 ton. 



J40 00 

 18 00 



Their description and composition are as follows: 



The flour, No. 128, is exceptionally free from particles of the 

 exterior layers of the grain and is absolutely without foreign ad- 

 mixture. The "middlings" is, properly speaking, "buckwheat feed.'' 

 Its composition is up to that of average buckwheat middlings, but 

 it contains a considerable proportion of hulls which cannot, by any 

 stretch of courtesj', be allowed sale under the name "bran" or "mid- 

 dlings." This is a case of adulteration with very little of fraud 

 if the goods be sold after examination, because the least experienced 

 buyer, if he were acquainted with the proper meaning of the term 

 middlings, could not fail to note the presence of the coarse hulls. 



MIXED FEEDS. 



Corn and Oat Feeds. 



Properly, these feeding stuffs should be composed of a mixture 

 of ground corn and ground oats, but very frequently large propor- 

 tions of the relatively valueless hulls are admixed. 



The average percentages of fat in corn and oats are the same, 

 and those of protein are so nearly the same that there is only one- 

 half per cent, more protein in a corn-and-oats chop containing two 

 parts of oats to one of corn, than in a chop made from one part 

 of oats to two of corn. A chop made from equal parts of oats and 

 corn, such as is called "provender" in New England, should contaic 

 about 11.1 per cent, of protein and .5.0 per cent, of fat. 



