ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 967 



"A tiihlps]t()(inrul (if suili :i inixtui'c i'rd iiitjlit ;ni(l iiKHMiin^' would not put bis 

 stock on tlu^ iii;irl<('t in thirty diiys less tiiiic. iicitlicr wnnld it floul)lo tho flow 

 of the niillv of l:is (l,iii'\ iici-d. imr won!*! it iircxciit rlinlcrM in lio.^s, nlxn'tion in 

 cattle, croup in cliiclxoiis, nor {rliinders in liors(>s. It is yet to i)e i)roved tliut ;iny 

 stock food or tonic will do this. The feedinj; of domestic animals is and always 

 will be a matter of applied connnon sense and iiit(>llifrence. Hut such a stock 

 food would have the merit of bein^ extremely inexi>ensivo, besides having as much 

 merit in other ways as any of its class." 



From a summary of exju'riments on the effects of cnndiniental stock foods on 

 digestibility and ridated topics, it is (>vident, according to the authors, "that 

 condimental stock foods and tonics, instead of producing the prodigious results 

 claimed for them, have really little or no beneficial effects and may greatly in- 

 crease the cost of beef, pork, and nnik production." 



The examination of cattle and poultry foods, .1. P>. Lindsey (Mnssachu- 

 setts /S7a. Bill. 112, p/). ')S). — Fnder the provisions of the State feeding-stuff law 

 analyses were made of a large lunnber of samples of cotton-seed meal, linseed 

 meal, gluten feed, dried distillers' grains, malt sprouts, dried brewers' grains, 

 wheat middlings, wheat mixed feed, wheat feeds with adnnxtures, wheat bran, 

 dairy feeds, molasses feeds, rye feeds, calf meal, corn meal, hominy meal, corn 

 and oat feed, fortified starchy feeds, oat feed, miscellaneous starchy feeds, meat 

 scraps, meat and bone meal, bone meal, granulated milk, poultry mash and meal, 

 chick and scratching grains, and alfalfa and clover meals. 



Some of the author's deductions follow : Most of the high-grade and medium 

 cotton-seed meals were found to meet their protein guarantees and were of good 

 color and taste. The new-process linseed meal contained rather less protein 

 than was found in the two preceding years, though the price per ton was higher. 

 The majority of the old process meals were of first grade. Four of the 19 

 samples were second (piality. although the price asked for these was 29 cts. a 

 ton in excess of that for first quality goods. 



The author notes that many mills and large jobbers are placing a guarantee 

 of comijosition upon their mill by-products. The importance of not runinng 

 screenings, ground or unground, into these feeds is insisted upon. "It is 

 believed that the addition of light oats, hulls, weed seeds, and the like will in 

 the end work fully as nnich harm to the manufacturers as to the consumers." 



The feeds classed as wheat feeds with admixtures were found to consist 

 principally of bi'an and ground corn cobs in the proportion of about .'> :1. " Our 

 observations lead us to infer that these goods are frequently offered untagged, 

 or sold for straight bran, the tags having been removed before delivery. We 

 can not caution buyers too strongly to be on their guard against such decei)tion." 



As regards mixed dairy feeds, the author believes that while many of the 

 proprietary mixtures found on sale should prove satisfactory as complete grain 

 rations for dairy stock the dairyman can himself i)repare as good or better 

 rations for less money, and fornndas for such mixed rations are given. 



" The better grades of molasses feeds test rather higher in protein than 

 formerly, are readily eaten, and can be safely fed as the entire grain ration if 

 desired. At prevailing prices they do not furnish digestible matter as cheaply 

 JiS it can be obtained from home-mixed rations, and as sources of digestible 

 protein they are decidedly expensive. The writer can not from a standpoint of 

 economy advocate these mixtinvs in ])lace of those th;\t can be made by the 

 ordinary d.-iiryman from cotton-seed meal, gluten U'{'i\. distillers' and l>rewers' 

 dried grains, malt si)routs, flour middlings, corn and bonnny me.-ils." 



Concerning the comparative v.-ilue of red and wliitc wheat for poultry feed, 



