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furnished in our bulletin last year. This gives 3.03 per cent, protein, 

 1.06 per cent, fat and 29.07 per cent, fiber. Please note the difference 

 in the fiber or the woody part of the feed. Between one-fourth and 

 one-third of this sample is fiber. This, as you know, would effect 

 the low protein and fat and leave you only about 2 per cent, of 

 protein and 0.71 per cent, of fat. In oats chop, and oats, you will 

 find the fiber is 9.05 per cent, or less than one-third of the amount 

 that you find in oat hulls, but you have 5.00 per cent, of fat and 11.8 

 per cent, of protein. Making the basis, we find that oats chop would 

 be reduced less than one-tenth per cent., leaving in the oats chop, 

 10.07 per cent, of protein and 4.50 per cent, of fat. 



This brings up the question, does it pay to buy this material? I 

 was going to call it feed, but I do not think it is a feed. 



The second article that I wish to bring up is peanut hulls. The 

 analysis is 4.50 per cent, protein, 0.81 per cent, fat and 67.31 per 

 cent, fiber. Here is a substance that over two-thirds of it is fiber 

 and this is one of the materials that is ofiEiered for sale on the 

 market to the millers and compounders of feed, to use as 

 adulterants. 



I would call your attention to ground corn cobs, the analysis of 

 which is as follows: Protein, 2.50 per cent., fat, 0.50 per cent., 

 fiber, 30.00 per cent. Here you have almost one-third fiber. This is 

 becoming one of the principal adulterants on the marivet. The corn 

 cobs are bought in wholesale quantities in the west where the corn 

 is shelled and ground to a fine powder. This is used to adulterate 

 bran and wheat middlings. 



In the analysis of corn, we find that the protein is 10.5 per cent., 

 fat, 5.4 per cent, and fiber 2.10 per cent. The corn cob has almost 

 one-third fiber. This would leave 0.34 per cent, of fat and 1.67 per 

 cent, of protein. Do you farmers and stock feeders wish to purchase 

 this kind of material mixed with your bran and middlings? Last 

 fall, w'e found on the markets of Pennsylvania a large amount of 

 wheat middlings that contained forty per cent, of corn cobs. This 

 feed was being sold at retail at |32 per ton. Our agents secured 

 samples out of eight different carloads and the analysis averaged 

 about the same. 



By direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, I brought suit on 

 these samples and the manufacturers of this feed in the West paid 

 the fines of |50 in each case and the costs; but, under our law, 

 they claim the right to sell this material, branding it "Jersey Mixed 

 Feed" by putting the composition on the sacks as well as the 

 analysis. It is a question in my mind whether the law recognizes 

 corn cobs as a feed and in another part of this report I will call 

 your attention more directly to this subject. 



The great State of Pennsylvania was made richer by the prosecu- 

 tion of these cases, but I wish to call your attention to the loss 

 that w\as sustained by the citizens who purchased this feed, taking 

 it on a basis of eight carloads and twenty tons to the car, making 

 160 ton. this computed at $32 per ton, would amount to |5,120. If 

 forty per cent, of this was corn cobs, as the Chemist found, and was 

 not disputed by the manufacturers, we find a loss of $2,048 to the 

 farmers and stock feeders of this Commonwealth. There may be 

 some question taken in regard to these figures by some who claim 



