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CONTENTS 



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Samples of commercial feeds analyzed 5 



Requirements of the State feed law 5 



Definitions 7 



Hearings 9 



Results of the enforcement of the feed law 9 



Purchasing feeds 10 



Digestion coefficients of commercial feeds 11 



The chemistry of feeds 11 



Protein 11 



Fats 12 



Crude fiber 12 



Moisture 12 



Ash 12 



Nitrogen-free extract 12 



Carbohydrates 12 



Microscopic analysis of feeds 13 



Description and composition of the by-products used for feed 13 



Wheat products 13 



Rye products 14 



Corn products 14 



Oat products 16 



Rice products 17 



Dried beet pulp 17 



Molasses feeds 17 



Alfalfa feeds 18 



Cotton-seed feeds 18 



Linseed meal 18 



Peanut meal 19 



Brewery and distillery by-products 19 



Special mixed feeds 19 



Poultry feeds 19 



Miscellaneous mixed feeds 20 



Salt in feeds 20 



Adulterants 20 



Analyses of feed adulterants 20 



Analyses of samples of feeds, season 1912 21 



Wheat bran and mixed brans 22 



Middlings or shorts 26 



Bran and shorts 32 



Shipstuff 34 



Rye feeds 38 



Corn chops and corn and oat feeds 38 



Rice feeds 40 



Alfalfa feeds (including molasses feeds containing alfalfa) 40 



Molasses feeds 48 



Dried beet pulp 50 



Cotton-seed feeds -^l 



Gluten feeds ^2 



Cracked corn ^4 



Special mixed feeds 56 



Poultry feeds 58 



Miscellaneous mixed feeds 64 



Leaf tobacco sales for October, 1912 71 



