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poultry foods, dried niol;isses beet i)uli), dried l)e(>t \m]]), hurley lue.-il, oat by- 

 ]ii'()dncts. and allali"a meal. 



Commercial feeding stuffs, II. J. Wiikklek kt al. {lihodc Isltuid >S7(;. /{(//. 

 I Li, PI). ll-Oti). — Under the provisions of the State .law analyses were made of 

 a number of samples of cotton-seed meal and feed, linseed meal (old and new 

 process), gluten meal and feed, brewers' and distillers' grains, malt sprouts, 

 wheat middlings, wheat bran, mixed wheiit feeds, honnny meal, corn meal, hors;^ 

 feed, dairy and stock feeds, poultry feed, animal meal and bone, provender, 

 alfalfa meal and molasses, alfalfa meal, sugar feed, crushed oats, dried beet 

 liulji. oat feeds, and proprietai'y feeds. 



" Consiuners ar(> again caulion(>d to beware of ground feeds other than 

 genuine corn meal, wheat middlings, bran, and mixtures of the last two, unless 

 they are guaranteed. The law does not require that -these be sold under a 

 guaranty. Consumers are equally cautioned to read the guaranti<>s, for cotton- 

 seed meal containing only about 23 to 24 per cent of protein is guaranteed, as 

 is also that containing from .'?8 to 48 per cent. Adulterated 'mixed feed' is 

 also on the market containing only from 12 to 13 per cent protein, while the 

 genuine mixed feed, composed of pure wheat bran and middlings, usually con- 

 tains from ir» to IS per cent of i)rotein." 



Inspection of concentrated conamercial feeding stuffs, F. W. Woll and 

 (!. A. Olsox {Wisconsin Hta. Rpt. lOO-l, pp. 31 ■'iS')!). — A table is given showing 

 the jii-oportions of i»rotein and fat in 01 brands of commercial feeding stuffs 

 licensed for sale in the State. 



Coefficients of digestibility of American feed stuffs. Experiments made 

 in the United States, J. B. Lindsey and P. H. Smith {Massachusetts »S7«. Rpt. 

 J 905, pp. 2:L'i-2.'i8). — A summary of digestion experiments which have be(>n 

 made with farm animals at the experiment stations in the United States. 



Analyses of oats, C. F. Juritz {Rpt. Senior Anal. Cape Good Hope, 1905, pp. 

 3.'i-3<i). — Ash, lime, and phosphoric acid in original material, and lime, phos- 

 phoric acid, and carl)on and silica in ash ;ire reported for samples of oats from 

 Algeria, South America, Canadri, Australia, and Cape of Good Hope. 



These analyses were made in view of a complaint that the colonial oats were 

 unsuited for feeding horses on account of a deficiency of lime. The analyses 

 show no foundation for this belief. The percentage of lime in the 5 samples of 

 oats varied from 0.(ir)4 to 0.147, the phosphoric acid from 0.441 to 0.734. 



Do white moss and white-moss peat possess any feeding value? 11. von 

 FEii.rrzK.N {Srcnska MosskiittKrfdr. Tidskr., 20 (1906), A'o. 1, pp. 77-79). — The 

 author summarizes earlier investigations in regard to the feeding value of peat 

 and gives the following analysis of dry sphagnum moss (Sphaf/nnni ciispi- 

 d(itinn), calculated to a dry-matter basis: Protein 6.62 per cent, fat 0.0!) per 

 cent, nitrogen-free extract 6.5..51 per cent, crude fiber 23.S!) per cent, pentosans 

 1.">.70 per cent, and ash 2.99 per cent. The amid nitrogen was 20.8 per cent, 

 the digestible albuminoid nitrogen 6.6 per cent, and the indigestible nitrogen 

 (nuclein) 72.6 per cent of the total nitrogen. Carbohydrates yielding mannose, 

 galactose, dextrose, levulose, and pentoses on hydrolysis were found in sphagnum 

 and sphagnum peat, but quantitative determinations were not made of these 

 l)olysaccharids. The feeding value of the sphagnum moss is shown to be very 

 low. — F. w. woi.i.. 



Speltz and millet for the production of baby beef, .1. W. Wiesox and II. G. 

 Skixxek (South Dakota Sta. But. 91, pp. (il-l.'i. fiys. 8). — The relative value of 

 si)eltz, oats, millet, and corn for calves raised on separator milk and for year- 

 lings on iiasture was studied, as well as the practical)ility of fatt(Miing yearlings 

 for the ])roduction of baby beef. I lay was fed in addition to the grain. 



Each lot contained 2 steers and a sijayed heifer and the test as a whole 



