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BOARD OF AGEICULTURE. 



GLUTEN MEAL. 



[From Chicago Sugar Refining Company.] 

 Eighty-Jive per cent, passsed through mesh 144 to square inch. 



The gluten meal is obtained as a by-product in the manu- 

 facture of starch and glucose from corn. It consists mainly 

 of the germs of the latter, with more or less skin parts and 

 starch. The supply of this substance has acquired consider- 

 able proportions in consequence of the recent development 

 of the glucose industry in this country. 



Examinations of samples from various sources have de- 

 monstrated its highly nitrogenous character, and left but 

 little doubt alwut its value for feeding purposes under suit- 

 able circumstances. For details in this direction I refer, as 

 far as my own observations and statements are concerned, to 

 Bulletin I., page 11, and Bulletin V., page 5, or the First 

 Annual Report. The variations noticed in composition are 

 in the main evidently caused by modifications in the manu- 

 facturing process, — a circumstance by no means an excep- 

 tional one, as far as the gluten meal is concerned ; for all 

 our valuable refuse materials for fodder, as brans, oil-cakes, 

 etc., suilcr from the same influence. The sample which 

 served for our feeding experiments, and furnished the ma- 



