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and breakfast food })y-product8, calf meal, dried grains, di'ie<l distillers' grains, germ 

 middlings, granulated bone, blood meal, meat meal, tankage, a chicken feed, wheat 

 bran, middlings, shorts, and red dog flour. The authors state that, as a general rule 

 chemical analysis and microscopic examination showed the wheat milling products 

 to be of superior quality, and free from any adulteration, with the exception of the 

 output of a few mills whose goods were found to contain admixtures of either ground 

 or whole wheat screenings. 



Ground mixed feeds are exemjit from tlie provisions of the State feeding stuff law, 

 but in order to determine whether such materials are true to name 96 samples were 

 examined. Of these 38 were considered suspicious from the fact that they contained 

 more than 7 i^er cent crude fiber. Eighteen samples were believed to be adulterated 

 since they had a crude fiber content of 9 per cent or more. From these figures the 

 authors conclude "that 38 per cent of the samples of corn and oats sampled and 

 analyzed in our laboratory during the past season were sus]ncious, and 24 per cent 

 were in all probability adulterated. . . . The materials used for adulterating corn 

 and oat feeds are low-grade refuse products like oat hulls, oat dust, crushed corn- 

 cobs, corn })ran, and mixed corn and oat feeds composed largely of such refuse 

 materials. . . . These adulterations, and the sale of mixed corn and oat feeds as pure 

 ground grains, form the most serious violation of our State feeding stuff law. Other 

 adulterations that have been established during the past season are the admixture of 

 ground or Avhole screenings to mill refuse feeds, oat feeds, and ground corn and oats, 

 and of . . . ground corn pith to dried brewers' grains. Aside from the adulteration 

 of the grain feeds, the situation in this State is not, on the whole, discouraging. ' ' 



Concentrated feeding stuffs licensed for sale in Wisconsin, 1903, F. W. 

 WoLL ( Wisconsin ,Sla. Bui. UB, pp. .J, 4, C-S) .—Tha text of the State feeding stuff law 

 is given and also a list of the concentrated feeds licensed for sale in the State together 

 with figures showing their guaranteed protein and fat content. 



The Wisconsin feeding- stuff law [WiHconsin Sta. Bpt. 1903, pp. 2S2-2S4) .—The 

 text of the State feeding stuff law is quoted. 



Food for live stock [Jour. Jamaica Agr. Soc, 6 {1902), No. 11, pp. 4o5-439). — The 

 general principles of stock feeding are discussed and a number of rations made up of 

 local feeding stuffs are suggested. 



Barley chaff as a cattle feed, .7. P. Wagner [Jour. Agr. Pvat., n. ser., 5 {1903), 

 No. 5, p. L'iS). — On the basis of the nutritive material contained l)arley bran is said 

 to be worth 50 cts. i)er 100 kg. as a feeding stuff. Brief notes regarding its use are 

 given. 



The chemical coniposition of the bottle-tree, J. C. Brunnich and W. Max- 

 well [Qucoisland Agr. Jour., 11 {1902), No. 5, pp. 363-365). — The pith of the Ijottle- 

 tree {Sterculia rupesiris) is suggested as a possible cattle feed in times of extreme 

 drought. Proximates and ash analyses of this material are reported. 



Concerning cacao shells, P. \yELMANS {Ztschr. Oeffentl. Chem., 7 {1901), pp. 491- 

 500; abs. in Ztfidir. Untcrsuch. Nahr. u. Genussmtl., 5 {1902), No. 23, pp. 1165-1168). — 

 A study of cacao shells with especial reference to the detection of this material when 

 in finely ground form and used as an adulterant for powdered cacao. 



Copra products at Marseille, K. P. Skinner ( U. S. Consular Epts., 70 {1902), 

 No. 267, pp. 531-534)- — Considerable information is given regarding the manufacture 

 of cocoanut butter and similar products made from cocoanut oil. 



Crushed corncobs, F. B. Guthrie {Agr. Gaz. New South Wales, 13 {1902), No. 10, 

 p. 1065). — The feeding value of ground corncobs is discussed and analyses of ground 

 cobs and ground cob mixtures are given. 



Effects of discriminate ringbarking, and the value of Kurrajong as a fodder 

 tree, W. Macdonald {Agr. Gaz. New Sou tit. Wale-% 13 {1902), No. :.', pp. 1102-1104).— 

 The value of Kurrajong scrub {Sterculia diversifolia) for feeding purposes is discussed. 



Molassecuit {Louisiana I^lanter, 29 {1902), No. 1, p. 3). — It is stated that this 

 stock feed consists of 80 per cent molasses and 20 per cent of the fine cellular matter 



