The Bulletin. 

 MIXED FEEDS CONTAINING MOLASSES. 



19 



(Analyses, pages 50-57.) 



Sixty-nine samples are reported, of these sixty-three were collected by 

 the official inspector. The guarantees and analyses range as follows : 



Percentage Composition 



Protein 



Guaranteed 



Found 



Deficient 



Range of deficiency 

 Range of excess 



8.00 to 16.50 

 8.12 to 17.81 

 2^ or 33 

 .25 to 1 .75 

 0.13 to 4.50 



Fat 



.50 to 4 .00 

 0.87 to 7.28 

 29 or 46 

 0.08 to 1.42 

 0.07 to 3.78 



Fiber 



10 .00 to 26 .00 

 5.22 to 16.60 



50 or 79 

 0.16 to 11.00 

 0.05 to 3.60 



The price of these goods ranged from $1.60 to $2 per 100 pounds; in 

 one case $2.25 was asked. Note the following quotations as compared 

 to feeding value: 



The ingredients, except a little salt in the first, are the same, namely, 

 alfalfa, cracked corn, oats, molasses ; the guarantees are about the same, 

 except as to fat. But the analysis indicates the last to be of appreciably 

 greater feed value than the first. The foregoing quotations were m 

 the same town. Take two other illustrations in the same town at about 

 the same date as the foregoing: 



If the first was worth $1.75 per 100 pounds, the latter should, on the 

 face of the analysis, be worth about $2.35 or $2.40. In the first case a 

 dollar bought 6.6 pounds of protein and supposedly 1.4 pounds of fat, 

 but actually barely 1 pound ; in the latter case 8.7 pounds of protein and 

 1.6 pounds of fat.' The ingredients of the first were alfalfa, cotton-seed 

 meal, corn, molasses, oats: the ingredients of the last were the same 



