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worthless materials have been used in their manufacture, so many 

 viable weed seeds have been found in them, that the purchaser 

 should be more than ordinarily cautious in his inspection, and re- 

 quire guaranties with respect to more points than the percentage of 

 protein and fat. When well made, normally sold and judiciously 

 used, they bid fair to be an excellent addition to the dietary list, 

 especially for our horses and fattening stock. 



The CHAIRMAN: Questions are now in order. 



MR. CLARK: Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask Dr. Frear how 

 it would do to buy the molasses and mix it with our chopped feed. 



DR. FREAR: You can do that, but unless you mix it at a rather 

 high temperature, you get a sticky mixture. They make machines 

 especially for that purpose; they are sold more largely in Europe, 

 however, than they are in America. 



MR. HUTCHISON: Mr. Chairman, I would just like to give a little 

 experience along that line, a thing that I came across; it relates to 

 this molasses feed. In the city of York there is a gentleman who 

 is selling quite a good deal. He sold four carloads last winter, three 

 of the carloads sold gave good satisfaction, but the fourth was sold 

 on towards Spring, and it became so packed and musty that the 

 animals wouldn't eat it, and that condemned what he sold before. 

 There is no doubt that the feeders there buying the goods were very 

 much pleased with it and had good results. If you get it good and 

 feed it fresh you get good results. I came across some men using 

 it for feeding mules. One man in Columbia, who mixed it with his 

 oats and Obtained good results. The trouble is to get the goods fresh 

 that you buy. It will become compact and sour in the sacks, other- 

 wise, and difficult to get out. 



DR. FREAR: It is found in Europe that if these feeds have more 

 than 20 per cent, of moisture they will get musty and sour, and the 

 cane sugar in them will be changed and become practically unfit for 

 use, so they have fixed that at a maximum standard. It is necessary 

 to keep these feeds in a dry place, as they absorb moisture readily, 

 and when thev have an excess of moisture, thev are unfit for use. 



PROF. COOK: Good results have been obtained in this country 

 by mixing with cotton-seed meal and in that way increasing the 

 nitrogenous material, and I think with a good law one would be safe 

 to buy the feed. 



DR. FREAR: If you are sure that the feed has been examined 

 and tested, I think you are safe, but as I tried to indicate a moment 

 ago, I should never buy a new feed until I knew it had been tested 

 and knew about what it was. 



PROF. SHAW: I would like to asked Dr. Frear if he would recom 

 mend molasses to any kind of breeding stock. 



DR. FREAR : I should say no, for the special reasons I mentioned 

 a little bit ago, with reference to the ill effects of some of the consti- 

 tuents, the possible ill effects. While it has been done a good many 

 time* without geriona injury, I think the precaution would apply 



