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moves the thing coating lying next to the rice grain. It is sold for feed 

 under the name of rice polish. 



Average analysis: Protein 11.70 per cent; fat 7.30 per cent; fiber 

 6.30 per cent; nitrogen-free extract 58.00 per cent; water 10.00 per 

 cent; ash 6.70 per cent.f 



Rice Meal. — Rice meal usually consists of a mixture of rice bran and 

 polish, frequently with the addition of varying amounts of hulls. 



Average analysis (11 samples) : Protein 11.54 per cent; fat 11.49 per 

 cent; fiber 9.96 per cent; nitrogen-free extract 47.77 per cent; water 

 9.42 per cent ; ash 9.82 per cent. 



DRIED BEET PULP. 



Dried Beet Pulp is the by-product from the manufacture of sugar 

 from sugar beets. After the sugar has been extracted from the ground 

 beets the pulp remaining is dried and put on the market as a feed. 



Average analysis (6 samples) : Protein 9.18 per cent; fat 0.96 per 

 cent ; fiber 17.71 per cent ; nitrogen-free extract 60.24 per cent ; water 

 8.29 per cent; ash 3.62 per cent. * ^ 



MOLASSES FEEDS. 



Molasses feeds consist principally of mill by-products mixed with 

 molasses. These feeds vary a great deal in the ingredients of which 

 they are composed, many of them being composed of nutritious ingredi- 

 ents and of good quality, while others contain only low-grade materials 

 the indentity of which is covered up by molasses. The ingredients 

 found in the feeds examined are as folloAvs: Mill screenings (frequently 

 containing considerable amount of weed seed), wheat middlings, malt 

 sprouts, com meal, oat hulls, cotton-seed meal, dried brewers' grains, 

 barley, barley hulls, cracked corn, dried distillers' grains, rice hulls, and 

 a few have a small amount of salt added to them. 



Molassiss is a carbohydrate, and when properly mixed with materials 

 which contain protein and fat makes a very satisfactory feed. The only 

 danger in buying this class of goods is that some manufacturers use 

 the molasses to cover up worthless adulterants in the feeds. 



Mill screenings liave been found to compose a large part of some of 

 these feeds. This introduces into the feed a large quantity of weed 

 seeds. Experiments at several stations have shown that in many cases 

 weed seeds when fed to animals are not aifected by the digestive process, 

 •ind hence a large amount of viable weed seeds are left in the manure. 

 When feeds contain considerable amounts of weed seeds the purchaser is 

 not only paying for worthless materials, but is introducing weeds on his 

 land. Tn mos^ of the brands analyzed this year the screenings contain- 

 ing the weed seeds have been partially ground. . This does away with 

 the danger of introducing weeds on the land, but the use of large 

 amounts of such screenings is a questionable practice and does not pro- 

 duce a high grade feed. Oat hulls, barley hulls and rice hulls, all of 

 which are practically worthless as feeds, have been found in considerable 

 quantities in some of these feeds. 



