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ADULTERANTS. 



When mixed with other good feeding materials Avithont proper 

 labeling or gaiarantee to indicate their presence, corn bran, rice chatf, 

 gTound corn-cobs, peanut hulls, peanut middlings, oat hulls, oat dust, 

 mill sweepings, screenings, cotton-seed hulls, and other similar prod- 

 ucts are adulterants. The tables containing the chemical and micro- 

 scopic examinations show that these adulterants were used to a con- 

 siderable extent in the make-up of the feeds sold for stock in the 

 State prior to the enforcement of the present Teed Law. To convey 

 an idea of the real feeding value of these adulterants the following 

 analyses were made: 



Per Cent Per Cent Per Cent Per Cent 

 Protein. Fat. Ash. Fiber. 



Peanut hulls 



Peanut middlings 

 Ground corn-cobs- 

 Rice chaff 



Oat hulls 



Oat dust--. 



Wheat screenings 



Corn bran 



Cotton-seed huUs- 



4.56 



8.75 

 3.12 

 2.50 

 3.03 

 8.09 

 9. 08 

 9.00 

 4.75 



67.31 

 40.75 

 30.37 

 34.40 

 29.07 

 1.82 

 3.00 

 12.70 

 40.54 



