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Foods Analyzed. 



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.S7o''A- Food Ingredients. 



Sphagnum ^loss , 3 . 33 



Beet Sugar Molasses 1 10.87 



Poultry Feeds 



AVestern Poultry Food Co....| 40.34 



Cypher's (^hick Food 12.03 



^Morgan's Animal Meal 58 . 10 



Sutherland's Seeds 9. 73 



Spratt's Chick Meal 24 . 41 



Spratt's Feed for large fowl... 19.32 



Pratt's Chick Food , 15 . 19 



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SI '- 





Si 



12.92 

 22.31 



4.18 

 6.01 

 7.59 

 3.84 

 3.92 

 4.76 

 8.31 



l.L'l 



49.23 



6.59 



1.28 



21 

 3 

 5 

 5 



67 

 73 

 07 

 18 



1.90 

 3.10 

 1.34 

 15.39 

 1.81 

 1.09 

 7.51 



1.45 

 10.63 



17.42 



29.42 



12.60 



4.79 



5.80 



16.23 



7.02 





31.86 

 56.19 



29.57 

 48.16 



0.0 

 62.58 

 58.33 

 53.52 

 54.79 



Poultry Feeds. 



The above table gives the average composition of seven distinct 

 brands of poultry foods. These feeds are composed of the usual mater- 

 ials'known to be of value in the feeding of poultry. Some of our recog- 

 nized authorities on poultry feeding tell us that they believe it would be 

 greater economy to purchase the ingredients of these foods separately. 

 Other poultrymen, however, think they would rather pay the difference 

 for the convenience of having a ready mixed poultry ration whereby they 

 avoid the storing and subsequent care of a number of materials which are 

 of limited use in the small quantities they would have to buy. 



SUMMARY. 



Only a few cases of actual adulteration have been found among the 

 samples examined. In every instance the adulterated sample was for- 

 warded to us by a feeder of live stock. 



A considerable number of by-products, such as corn bran, oat hulls, 

 and oat feed, etc., are of such inferior quality that they cannot, as a rule, 

 be used to any profit. 



An examination of the analyses of the feeds given in the foregoing 

 tables, when considered in connection with the prices paid for these food 

 materials will assist the purchaser in deciding which of the by-products 

 is the most economical for his purpose. 



At the present time the prices asked for cattle foods bear very little 

 relation to their feeding value. That is, feed is retailed at so much 

 per ton whether it is rich in protein and well suited to supplement our 

 ordinary farm foods, or whether it is a starchy food, and, therefore, of 

 much less value in compounding suitable rations for cattle. Such being 



