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duty of the department of agriculture. 



It is tlie duty of the Department of Agriculture to see that all feeds 

 are properly marked, to collect and examine them in order to note 

 whether they are as represented, and to publish the results for the benefit 

 of all interested parties. 



The Department also analyzes free any sample of feeding stuff sent in. 



The Department stands ready, through correspondence and through 

 the personal services of its regular inspectors, to furnish whatever in- 

 formation it may possess concerning the character and nutritive value 

 of all feed stuffs. 



NOTES REGARDING SOME OF THE NEWER FEEDS. 



Molasses or Sugar Feeds. — Under this head is grouped Sucrene Feeds, 

 Saccharine Dairy Feed, and Mueller's Molasses Grains. There are three 

 feeds manufactured by the. American Milling Company, of Chicago, 

 namely, Sucrene Dairy Feed, Sucrene Horse Feed, and Sucrene Horse, 

 Mule and Ox Feed. These feeds have been sold in the State in large 

 quantities during the past year. Sucrene Dairy Feed is a mixture of a 

 wheat product, corn product, oats, barley, malt sprouts, cotton-seed meal, 

 molasses, and weed seeds. It is guaranteed to contain : Protein, 16.50 

 per cent; fat, 3.50 per cent, and crude filDer, 12.00 per cent. Sucrene 

 Horse Feed is a mixture of a wheat product, corn product, cotton-seed 

 meal, oats, oat hulls, molasses, and weed seeds. It is guaranteed to con- 

 tain: Protein, 13.50 per cent; fat, 3.50 per cent. Sucrene Horse, Mule 

 and Ox Feed is a mixture of corn, oats, distillery product, molasses, and 

 weed seeds. It is guaranteed to contain: Protein, 10.00 per cent, and 

 fat, 3.00 per cent. These feeds are up to their guarantee, and when 

 inspected were in good condition. 



Mueller's Molasses Grains do not seem to be a definite mixture, as 

 some shipments have different ingredients from others, and consequently 

 different samples of this feed do not analyze the same. 



Saccharine Dairy Feed, made by Lewis Leonhardt & Co., of Knoxville, 

 Tenn., is about 4 per cent under its guarantee in protein, and, besides, 

 contains rice chaff. The use of rice chaff in this feed is an adulteration 

 and in violation of the feed law. This feed is not up to its guarantee. 



Molasses feeds dry out quickly, losing weight and palatableness, and 

 for these reasons should be bought in such quantities as can be readily 

 used in a short time. 



Cooked Feeds. — Experiments have been conducted in many States to 

 ascertain the facts in regard to the advisability of cooking feeds for farm 

 stock. The results of these investigations have been that it does not pay 

 to cook food for stock when such food will be satisfactorily' consumed 

 without cooking, for cooking does not increase the digestibility of feed- 

 ing stuffs, but may lower it, and there is considerable expense involved 

 in the operation. Feeders should not confuse the effects of cooked feeds 

 upon farm stock with the advantage of supplying them with warm feed 

 in a palatable form. 



A horse feed and a cow feed manufactured by the Southern Cooked 

 Feed Company, of Nashville, Tenn., have been sold in this State during 



