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middlings, and otlicr wlioat products, cotton-stH'd meal, dried hoot pulp, corn 

 chop, oats, hominy, and poultry and mixed foods. Formulas are given for 

 condiniontai stock foods and examples of rations for all kinds of live stock. 



Inspection of feeding- stuffs, E. L. Baker et al. (New York State Sta. Bui. 

 old, pp. 163-251). — This hulletin contains a list of brands of feeding stuffs 

 licensed for 1000 and reports analyses of 403 samples of feeds which include 

 cotton and linsood meals, malt sprouts, distillers' and brewers' grains, corn 

 brans, gluten, hominy, and comiuiunded feeds, and animal products. 



" With a large number of the compounded foods analyzed during the past 

 season the proportion of protein and fiber and the general appearance of tlio 

 mixtures, or other reasons, led to a more detailed examination than the mere 

 determination of protein and fat. Not only have the percentages of pi'otein, 

 fat, and fiber been determined, but these mixtures have been studied with 

 reference to the ingredients from which they were compounded. These ex- 

 aminations not only reveal the presence of oat hulls, peanut hulls, rice hulls, 

 ground corncob and weed seeds in the feeding stuffs found in New York 

 markets, but also show that many of these mixtures are misbranded in a way 

 calculated to deceive the purchaser, a deception which must be regarded as 

 intentional." 



Wheat offals wereoften found adulterated with ground corncob. "The en- 

 trance of oat hulls into the feeding stuffs trade has made it possible to adulter- 

 ate gi'ain mixtui'es in a way that escapes ordinary observation. Often the 

 term 'chop' or 'corn and oat' is a part of the brand name and carries with 

 it the significance that has been attached to it in the past and thus adds to 

 the deception." 



Molasses feeds were often found to contain weed seeds, oat hulls, oat glumes, 

 and straw. " The writer is informed on good authority that the mill and ele- 

 vator sweepings made in Buffalo are shipped to the manufacturers at a uni- 

 form price of $9 per ton at the place of mixing. After mixing these are sold 

 to the consumer at prices approaching $27 or $28 per ton." 



A table is given showing the composition and digestibility of buckwheat hulls, 

 corncobs, oat feed, peanut feed, husks, and shells, and rice hulls, which are 

 used in adulterating feeding stuffs. The text of the feeding stuffs law as 

 recently amended is also included. 



By-product feeding' stuffs, H. P. Armsby {Amrr. Hay, Flour, and Feed Jour., 

 Jo (1909), No. 6, pp. 31, 32). — This is a discussion of the feeding value of 

 by-products. It is pointed out that under the present process bran is a much 

 njore expensive feeding stuff than standard middlings as a source of energy. 

 Lilvowise, linseed meal is more expensive than distillers' grains. The cost per 

 therm of tliose and other by-products is given. 



American molasses feeds; their manufacture and composition, J. E. Hal- 

 LiGAN {Amer. Ilaij, Flour, and Feed Jour., to (1909), No. 6, pp. 27-29; Jour. 

 InduH. and Enyin. Chem., 1 (1909), No. 7, pp. ^i-'fl-4'i5). — This is an account of 

 the methods of manufacturing molasses feeds. Analyses are given of foreign 

 and domestic brands found on the market. 



How should dried potatoes be fed? Parow (Ztsehr. Spiritu.tindus., 32 

 (1909), No. 39, pp. U9, ',50; Deut. Landw. Prcsse, 36 (1909), No. 79, p. 81,2).— 

 Seventy-four different rations containing dried potatoes in the form of flakes or 

 chips are suggested for various kinds of live stock. 



The self -heating of hay, F. W. J. Boekhout and J. J. <). de Vries (Cenihl. 

 Bakt. [etc.], 2. Aht., 23 (1909), Nos. 1-5, pp. 106-108).— From the results of 

 these experiments, which are in continuation of earlier work (E. S. R., 17, i>. 

 1001), it is evident that water has a great influence on the oxidizing process 

 occurring during the heating of hay and that temperatures under 100° C. favor 



