No. 6. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. t» 



tion (B. 182, p. 5) this is composed of linseed meal, wheat feed, cayenne 

 popper, charcoal, salt, Ei)soin salts, iron oxid and sulfur; the latter 

 is present in the "crude fat" to the amount of 6.73 per cent, of the 

 entire material. The salt amounts to 5 per cent, approximately. 



Bamah Stock load made by the same company. Price |180 to 

 $200 per ton. According to the Connecticut Station (Zoc. eit.) it is 

 composed of linseed meal, charcoal, salt, Epsom salts and sulfur; the 

 same finding was made by the 'Massachusetts Station. There is 3.5 

 per cent, of salt and about 4 per cent, of free sulfur present, with 

 probably 3 per cent, of Epsom salts. 



Benjamin's Food for Horses and Cattle^ made by Benjamin's Food 

 Co., Danbury, Conn. Price $250 per ton. Composed of linseed meal, 

 wheat feed and fenugreek (Conn. Sta., B. 132, p. 5). 



Benjaminh Poultry Pood., made by the same company. Price $250 

 per ton. According to the Connecticut Station, it is composed of 

 linseed meal, wheat feed, corn meal, cotton-seed meal and mustard 

 hulls. 



Champion Horse and Cattle Pood, made by the Champion Food Co. 

 Price |300 per ton. Chiefly composed of corn, with linseed, rice, 

 charcoal, salt and sulfates, probably Glauber's salts. 



Climax Stock Pood^ made by L. B. Lord, Burlington, Vt. Price 

 |210 per ton. Composed, according to the Massachusetts Station, 

 chiefly of wheat and barley, together with salts and copperas. The 

 New York Station found in one sample a very large quantity of sul- 

 fur, constituting most of the ether-extract. 



Colonial Poultry Pood^ made by the Puritan Mfg. Co., Rochester, 

 N. Y. Price not stated. Composed chiefly of barley and other 

 cereals, charcoal, salt and pepper. (Mass. Sta., B. 71, p. 30.) 



Colonial Stock Pood^ made by the same company. Price $200 to 

 $275 per ton. Composed, according to the Massachusetts Station, 

 of wheat, a large amount of charcoal, salt and a condiment resem- 

 bling fenugreek. 



Dole's Poidtry Meal, made by J. C. Dow, Boston. Price $300 per 

 ton. Composed, according to the Massachusetts Station, of meat, 

 bone, salt and oyster shells. 



Eggine, made by the Eggine Co., Hartford, Conn. Price not stated. 

 Composed, according to the Massachusetts Station, chiefly of fine 

 ground oyster shells, with animal matter, pepper, charcoal and 

 Epsom salts. 



Eureka Pgg Pood, Jos. Breck's Sons Corporation, Boston, Mass. 

 Price not stated. Composed of cereals, highly proteid material, 

 charcoal, salt and oyster shells (Mass. Sta., B. 71, p. 30). 



Plagg^s Poidtry Pood. Price $240 per ton. Composed, according 

 to the Massachusetts Station, of corn, wheat offal, pepper, salt, char- 

 coal, Epsom salts and Venetian red. 



