FOODS — ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



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Average composition of wheat grown in California and the East, and products from the 



same. 



"From an inspection of the data given for California wheat, it will be seen that 

 there is but little variation from the average obtained from 310 analyses of the same 

 food material grown east of the Kooky Mountains. . . . 



"The California flour is much poorer in nitrogenous compounds than the Eastern 

 flour of the same quality. 



"The same statement applies to graham flour. 



"While the percentage of [pho.sphoric] acid in the ash of the difi'erent flours is 

 about the same, amounting to aliuost one half the ash, when we refer it to the flour 

 as 100, the coarse material shows 0.75 as against 0.23 for the flne flour. This is owing 

 to the total ash in the former case being about three times that obtained for the latter. 

 It must not be supposed that because the coarse or graham Hour contains higher per- 

 centages of nitrogenous and mineral matter than does the flne flour it is therefore in 

 proportion more nutritious. The increased amounts of these elements come from tlie 

 bran, very little of which is digested by the human stomach." 



"It will be noted that the bran made in California contains considerably less crude 

 protein, or nitrogenous matter, than does the same by-product from the East, as 

 shown in the averages, by the figures 13.44 and 15.40, respectively. The fat percent- 

 age is also slightly lower for the California food. . . . 



"The wheat screenings of this State, like the bran, contain less of albuminoids.'' 



Gluten feeds, their source, composition, and methods of use, 



E. B. VooRHEES {Keic Jersey 8tas. Bui. 105, pp.34, Jig. 1). — By way of 

 Introduction an enlarged cut is given of a corn kernel sliowing- the 

 position of the skin or husk, gluten layer, starch layer, and germ. The 

 skin, germ and starchy parts were separated from 100 gm. of kernels of 

 new corn as nearly as possible, and analyzed with the following results: 



Analyses of whole and separate parts of corn kernel. 



