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PROF. FULLER: I would state the analysis showed a value of 

 five or seven dollars a ton below the selling price, due to the defi- 

 ciency in the most important ingredients in the feeding stuff, pro- 

 tein and fat. 



The SECRETARY: That was below the selling price and not below 

 what the price should have been according to the guaranty? 



PROF. FULLER: Yes. 



MR. HUTCHISON: Mr. Chairman, I might state that the results 

 of his work will be published in a bulletin and can be had by any 

 one interested. The chemical work is now going on. and in a month 

 or six w r eeks the bulletin will be ready for distribution, giving all the 

 results of the analyses, together with other information. The De- 

 partment will be glad to supply copies to anyone making application. 



MR. CHUBBUCK: Mr. Chairman, this discussion brings to my 

 mind a little thing that happened to me last fall. I raised and 

 wished to grind about five tons of buckwheat flour. I found what 

 the price was in my own town, where there is a large mill that grinds 

 and ships flour, wherever it is wanted, by the car or by the ton. In 

 the city of Philadelphia is a firm guaranteed by The American Agri- 

 culturist as being all right, and I wrote to that firm and asked them 

 what they could handle three to five tons of buckwheat flour for, 

 and they wrote back to me a price that was 25 cents less than I 

 could get from the wholesaler in my own town. Now, why was that 

 so? All I had to do was to take my buckwheat to this mill and he 

 took the flour at |2.50 per hundred, while I would have had to take 

 the flour and ship it to Philadelphia and there realize only $2.25 a 

 hundred. 



MR. HUTCHISON: Mr. Chairman, it might be that Philadelphia 

 has an over-production or that they have a market they can draw 

 upon which furnishes them all they need. It might be that they 

 were getting buckwheat adulterated with some cheap product. In 

 the work I was doing this year, 1 ran across a gentleman who was 

 selling corn flour, large quantities of it. I overheard a conversation 

 between two or three millers, men whom I knew very well, and they 

 stated that you could use with profit, corn flour as a mixture with 

 buckwheat flour, and reduce the price, but whether they did this or 

 not, that I cannot say, but that might be another reason, or they 

 might be using some wheat flour, perhaps. 



MR, CHUBBUCK: In my question I did not think that they could 

 draw from any other section where they could get it any cheaper 

 than that. 



MR. SEXTON.: Mr. Chairman, it has been our annual custom to 

 appoint a committee to w 7 ait upon the Governor to let him know that 

 the State Board of Agriculture is in session. 



I therefore move that a committee be appointed to wait upon the 

 Governor and inform him that the State Board of Agriculture is now 

 in session. 



MR. HUTCHISON: I second tbe motion. 



The question being put, it was agreed to. 



