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the feed to the manufacturer and are sold at a price much in excess of 

 their value. In fact, their value as a feed, except in corn and cob 

 meal, is very low indeed. 



Molasses Feeds. — Some of these are good feeds, and the molasses 

 used in them has a legitimate use, but in many of them the molasses 

 is used to mask the adulterants, such as rice chaff, ground weed stalks 

 and weed seeds. A molasses feed was found containing rice chaff, in 

 which it was impossible to detect the rice chaff present without first 

 thoroughly drying the sample and then putting it under a magnifying 

 glass. Molasses is a carbohydrate and can be used in feeds to good 

 advantage, but has been brought into disrepute by being used by 

 unscrupulous manufacturers to mask adulterants. 



Cracked Corn. — Much of the cracked corn that has been coming 

 into the State lately has been made from damaged com — so much so 

 that now all cracked corn made from damaged corn must be branded 

 and sold as Damaged Cracked Corn or Cracked Corn made from dam- 

 aged corn. 



Com and Oat Feeds. — These feeds are perhaps the lowest-grade 

 feeds on our market. They are certainly the most expensive. Most 

 of them are composed of oat hulls and possibly enough cracked corn 

 to make the intending purchaser think they are much better feeds 

 than they really are. This Department has been accumulating evi- 

 dence and analyses concerning these feeds for the past several years, 

 and feels justified now in making a standard analysis for these prod- 

 ucts. Under this standard the per cent of oat hulls in these feeds will 

 be greatly reduced, and consequently the quality of these feeds im- 

 proved. 



Rice Products.*— A good rice bran should contain 12.50 per cent 

 protein, 10.00 per cent fat, not over 10.00 per cent fiber and not over 

 9.00 per cent ash, and should not have a rancid odor. According to 

 Dr. Brown, formerly chemist of the Louisiana Experiment Station, 

 who made extensive investigations on rice products, the formula used 

 for calculating adulteration in rice bran with hulls is as follows : Per 

 cent hulls = 3.33 X (per cent fiber = 10), assuming that the hulls 

 carry 40.00 per cent fiber and the bran runs 10.00 per cent fiber. 



A sample of rice bran with 30.00 per cent fiber would be considered 

 as having 66.60 per cent hulls. Example: Per cent hulls equals 

 3.33X(30— 10)=20 3.33X20=66.60 per cent. 



Alfalfa Feeds. — Alfalfa used as a feed is that part of the plant that 

 grows above ground. When properly cured it makes a good hay. 

 Alfalfa meal is the same as alfalfa hay, except that it is finely ground. 

 Both have the same nutritive value and are worth about the same price 

 for feeding purposes. Alfalfa has about the same feeding value as 

 pea vines. Alfalfa meal is being used in many feed mixtures to 

 bring up the per cent of protein and make the feed more palatable. 



♦Georgia Department of Agriculture. 



