No. 6. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



627 



White's Stock tood^ made by the White Food Co., Taunton, Mass. 

 Composed chiefly of bran with an admixture of fenugreek. (Mass. 

 Station.) 



Wilbur s Egg lujod, made by Wilbur's Seed Meal Co., Milwaukee, 

 Wis. Price $222 per ton. Analysis without description of ingre- 

 dients by the Virginia Station. 



Wilbur's Seed J/ea^, made by the same company. Price not stated. 

 Analysis without statement of ingredients by the New York Station. 



The results of the food analyses of the foregoing foods, together 

 with an indication of the number of analyses upon which the state- 

 ment is based and the sources from which they are drawn, are given 

 in the following table. It should be borne in mind that the presence 

 of mineral drugs in the eondimental foods leads to some variation 

 in the composition of the several groups of materials separated by 

 the common analytical processes; thus, the free sulfur appears with 

 the fat, the charcoal with the fiber, and, since the nitrogen-free 

 extract is computed by subtracting the sum of the other groups from 

 100, it represents, in cases where large quantities of oyster shell have 

 been admixed, not only sugar, starch and the usual constituents but 

 also so much of the carbonic acid as is driven off from the shells in 

 making the ash determination. 



In this connection, it may be noted that the analyses of different 

 Stations and even analyses of different packages by the same Sta- 

 tion, show a tendency to very little uniformity of composition in most 

 of these foods and point, in some cases, to a change of formula at 

 convenience. 



Food Analyses of Condimental Foods (per cent.). 



Name. 



c4 



American Pplced Food 



American Triumph Horse and 



Cattle i^'ood 



American Triumph Poultry Food, 

 Anglo-American Food for Stock, 

 Anglo- American Poultry Food,. 



Banner Poultry Food 



Banner Stock Food 



Barwell's Horse and Cattle Fooa, 



Baum's Poultry Food, 



Baum'3 Stock Food, 



Benjamin's Food for Horses and 



Cattle 



Benjamin's Poultry Food. 



Champion Horse and Cattle Food 

 Climax Stock Food, 



39 



X.91 



B.OO 

 5.66 



4.R5 

 5. 33 



6.50 

 4.96 

 ■9.72 

 8.S2 

 7.47 



6.2S 



6.98 



4.<0 



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