EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 329 



Ground Flaxseed or Flaxseed Meal is the product obtaiued by grinding 

 flaxseed which has been screened and cleaned of weed seeds and other 

 foreign material by the most improved commercial processes, provided 

 that the final products shall not contain over 4 per cent of weed seeds 

 and other foreign materials, and provided further that no portion of the 

 stated 4 per cent of weed seeds and other foreign materials shall be 

 deliberatelv added. 



PROPOSED DEFINITIONS. 



Wheat Bran consists of the coarse outer coatings of the kernel obtained 

 in the usual commercial process of milling from wheat that has been 

 cleaned and scoured. 



Wheat Shorts or Middlings. 



(a) Brown (Red) Shorts consist mostly of the fine particles of bran 

 and germ and contains very little of fibrous oflfal obtained from the 

 "tail of the mill." 



(b) Standard (Total or Gray) Shorts consist of the fine particles 

 of the outer bran, the inner or "Bee-wing" bran, germ, and the otfal, or 

 fibrous material, obtained in the last reduction on millings. 



(c) White Shorts consist of a smaller portion of the fine bran parti- 

 cles and germ and a much greater portion of the fibrous oifal from tlie 

 "tail of the mill." 



Red Dog consists of a mixture of low-grade fiour, fine particles of bran 

 and the fibrous olfal from the "tail of the mill.'' 



Ship Stuff (Wheat Mixed Feed) consists of pure wheat bran and 

 standard, or total, shorts combined in the proportions obtained in 

 the usual process of commercial milling. 



(Note — If to ;in.v of the foregoing brands of feed there should be added screenings, or scour- 

 ings, as hereinafter defined, either ground or unground, bolted or unbolted, such brand will be 

 so registered, labeled and sold as clearly to indicate this fact. The word "Screenings" or 

 "Scourings" as the case may be, shall appear as a part of the name or brand and shall be 

 printed in the same size and face of type as the remainder of the brand name.) 



Screenings consist of the smaller, imperfect grains, weed seeds, and 

 other foreign materials, having feed value, separated in cleaning the 

 grain. 



Scourings consist of such portions of the cuticle, brush, white caps, 

 dust smut, and other materials as are separated from the grain in the 

 usual commercial process of scouring. 



DISCUSSIONS OF RESULTS. 



During the past year 919 samples of feed have been analyzed. Of 

 this number 13 represented products which are not subject to license and 

 10 samples represented shipments which the manufacturers refused to 

 license. In the future all unlicensed "commercial feeding stuffs" will 

 be removed from sale wherever found. Dealers are, therefore, cautioned 

 about handling such feed. 



In summarizing the results of the inspection during the past year, we 

 find that 75 or 8.3 per cent of the samples were below guarantee in 



