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feed. This certainly is an important step in the right direction 

 and is a material benefil to the dealers handling this teed manufac- 

 tured in Western stales. 



Over two thousand dollars have been collected in tines. But the 

 Department wishes it to be understood distinctly that this fact is 

 of minor importance as compared to the fact of the benefit which 

 the dairymen of this State will receive from this legislation. 



1 thank you very much for this opportunity for speaking a few 

 words, and I hope I shall have the pleasure of meeting you individ- 

 ually. 



The DEPUTY SECRETARY: Mr. Chairman, I would like to make 

 an inquiry. Prof. Fuller stated that there was a variation of the pro- 

 tein-contents iu different brands. I would like to inquire if he found 

 in his analysis of these brands that different grades of wheat would 

 make a variation; if so, what causes that variation? 



PROF. FULLER : I would state that I have found that the wheat 

 offals of last year and this year also are of inferior quality. I be- 

 lieve that is due to climatic conditions; I believe that the millers 

 are not able to get all the flour from the wheat, because I find that 

 more or less flour is dragged down and goes into the bran and mid- 

 dlings. 



MR. HUTCHISON. I would like to ask the Professor in refer- 

 ence to the samples of Western goods analyzed, in dollars and cents; 

 what variation was there between their guaranty and what you 

 found ? 



PROF. FULLER. I would state that it is almost impossible to 

 set any definite common price for protein and fat, although I made 

 a calculation approximately and found there was a difference of be- 

 tween five and seven dollars between the price set by dealers and the 

 actual value. Feeding stuffs are entirely different from fertilizers; in 

 feeding stuffs we not only have protein to create fat but we have the 

 ash and the carbohydrates; we find all these materials in feeding 

 stuffs and they all serve their purpose. It is almost impossible to 

 state any common value for the protein and fat. 



A Member: Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask the Professor if 

 he has ever made any analyses of buckwheat flour sold on the 

 market. 



PROF. FULLER: I would state that I have not. 



A Member: Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask the speaker whether 

 he found any particular adulterants that came from the West? 



PROF. FULLER: I would state the only adulteration I have found 

 during the past few months was the substitution of oat hulls for the 

 whole oats. The manufacturers in the West use only the best grains 

 for their breakfast foods, take the breakfast foods where oats are 

 used, and they use only the best oats. As I have already stated, 

 rice hulls have sometimes been used as an adulteration, and coffee 

 hulls are sometimes found. 



A Member: I would ask if we are to understand that some of these 

 samples were under the value to the extent of six or seven dollars 

 a ton? 



