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study of the feed situation. As a whole these goods are made up 

 of oat hulls, of light oats and of corn and corn products, fortified 

 more or less at times with such concentrates as the gluten meals, 

 linseed and cottonseed. 



Hominy Feed, Cerealine and Maisealine Feed. Hominy feed 

 or chop is a byproduct of hominy manufacture. The harder, 

 outer portions of the kernel are separated from the softer or in- 

 ner portion and from the germ mechanically, the former con- 

 stituting the hominy and the latter the chop. Cerealine and 

 maizealine are simply trade names for a sort of hominy and the 

 feeds are simply hominy chops. The hominy feeds have had 

 considerable repute as milk makers among New England dairy- 

 men. The only experiments touching this matter have been 

 made at the Vermont Station and published in the 17th Report 

 and in the (forthcoming) i8th Report. The results were quite 

 favorable to the hominy feed. The cow seems to find more there- 

 in than does the chemist. At ruling prices it is apt to prove 

 somewhat better in dairy feeding than corn meal. 



BEET SUGAR BYPRODUCTS. 



The well known and effective diffusion process for the ex- 

 traction of the sugar from the beet is employed by beet sugar 

 factories. The roots are cut into slices and the sugar soaked 

 out in immense tanks. The soaked residuum is either sold in a 

 wet condition to nearby farmers as a sugar beet feed, to be fed 

 directly or to be ensiled ; or it is kiln dried and sold as dried 

 sugar beet pulp; or, in some cases, molasses is mixed with it 

 and it is sold as dried molasses beet pulp. These feeds have 

 recently appeared in New England markets. None of them carry 

 any material quantities of protein, even the kiln dried products 

 rarely containing as much as 10 per cent. Hence they obviously 

 are not calculated to narrow a ration. The value of the wet 

 products naturally depends mainly upon the amount of moisture 

 they contain. At the present writing moist beet feed is being 

 offered in New England at from $4 to $5 a ton in carload lots. 

 A sample sent by the manufacturers to the Vermont Station was 

 found to contain 89.76 per cent of water or but a trace more than 

 does skim milk. It carried 0.87 per cent protein or 17 pounds in a 

 ton. The average percent of moisture in ordinary feeding stuff 

 may be assumed to be 10 percent. This material at $4, assuming 

 the sample properly represents actual sales, would be equivalent 

 to the dried product at 35 dollars a ton f. o. b. the nearest home 

 railroad station. At this latter price, in view of its low protein 

 content, and the increased carriage charges for the high water 

 content is not a great bargain. One can buy at $30 in cottonseed 

 meal 860 pounds of protein; hence paying $35 for 150 pounds is 



