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except rice straw instead of oats. There could, however, have heen but 

 little rice straw present, else the protein content would have been less 

 and the fiber content greater; rice straw contains but little protein 

 (4.7%), much fiber (3%) and little fat (2%). 



POULTRY FEEDS. 



Analyses, pages 58-61.) 



• Twenty-six samples were analyzed. The range of guarantee and 

 analysis stood thus: 



The prices asked for poultry feed ranged from $2 to $3 per 100' 

 pounds. The following quotations will indicate that this difference in 

 price is not always justified by difference in feed value : 



Ingredients of the first : cracked corn, kafir corn, wheat, buckwheat. 

 Ingredients of the second : corn meal, gluten, middlings, bran, oatmeal, 

 hen-e-ta. 



Ingredients of the third : cracked corn, kaffir corn, wheat, shells. 



The two dollar stuff is undoubtedly better than the two-fifty stuff, and 

 probably little inferior to the three-dollar stuff. Hen-e-ta is a phos- 

 phatic grit, for which great claims are made. 



COTTON-SEED MEAL AND COTTON-SEED FEED. 



(Analyses, pages 62-65.) 



The ofiicial samples of cotton-seed meal are collected mainly by the 

 inspectors of fertilizers, and the analyses are published in the fertilizer 

 bulletins, hence only very few are reported here. Standard cotton-seed 

 meal is defined by our cotton-seed meal law to be one that contains 



