Nu. 6. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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No. 131, "Clover Meal," appears to be very fine-cut clover hay. 



No. 138 shows uothiug foreign to the name. 



No. 142, composed, as classified, of oats, corn, wheat and barley. 



No. 14S composed chielly of rice hulls and polish. 



Of these goods, several are worthy of further remark: The price 

 of No. 131, even after the most extreme allowance for the expense of 

 retailing in small (quantities, is altogether out of proportion to the 

 food value. Clover hay has an average of 12.3 per cent, protein, 

 sometimes rising to 20.9 per cent., and an average of 3.3 per cent, 

 of crude fat or ether-extract, sometimes reaching 5.9 per cent. The 

 shatterings, commonly used on the farm as a poultry food, are still 

 richer in protein. A Connecticut analysis gives for this poultry food, 

 9.5 per cent, protein and 2.42 per cent, fat, a much higher value. 



The proportion of fat in the rice feed, No. 148, is unusually high, 

 otherwise the composition is normal; the range of composition for 

 the more important rice by-products, obtained by the itivestigations 

 of a number of the Southern experiment stations is: 



Rice bran, 

 Kice bulls, 

 Rice polish 



Protein, 

 per cent. 



10. 9-13. G 



2.9-4.7 



10.9-12.9 



Fat, 

 per cent. 



5.2-10.9 

 0.6-0.9 

 6.5-S.O 



A large proportion of the food is evidently derived from the polish. 



American Poultry Food, represented by sample No. 142, is on 

 sale in other States and has been guaranteed in New York State to 

 contain 13.65 per cent, of protein and 3.96 per cent, of fat. The 

 average of nine recent analyses in States having food controls show^s 

 13.20 per cent, of protein and 6.20 per cent, of fat. The Pennsyl- 

 vania sample is conspicuously inferior. 



CONDIMENTAL FOODS. 



Two samples of foods of this class were received: 



