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tinuing past practice (E. S. R., 28, p. 74; 30, p. 4,66), the proceedings of tliree 

 meetings held November 13-14, 1914, November 18-19, 1915, and November 17-18, 

 1916, respectively, at Washington, D. C, are reported. The 1914 report includes 

 the constitution of the association and the papers of Chapin and Duvel pre- 

 viously mentioned (E. S. 11., 32, p. 200). The 1915 report contains discussions 

 and committee reports on tin-plate by-products, " hominy hearts," percentage 

 of grit in poultry feeds, ingredients present in feeding stuffs in small amounts, 

 phosphoric acid standard for meat scrap and digester tankr je, and crude fiber 

 standards for cottonseed meal; and a paper by W. F. Ward on Feeding Beef 

 Cattle. The 1916 proceedings include a paper by B. W. Kilgure on Peanut and 

 Soy Bean. Products for Feeding Purposes; a discussion of hominy feed; and re- 

 ports on mill by-products and tin-plate middlings. 



[Association of Feed Control Officials. — Ninth and tenth, annual meetings] 

 (Feeding Htuffs, 31 (1917), No. 6, pp. 19-26, figs. 3; 34 (1919), No. 1, pp. 19, 20,' 

 27). — These are general accounts of the meetings held at Richmond, Va., Novem- 

 ber 23-24, 1917, and at Pittsburgh, Pa., January 13-14, 1919. The 1917 report 

 includes a paper by G. S. Fraps on The Composition of Peanut By-products, 

 Coconut Meal, and Soy Bean Meal. 



Commercial feeding stuffs, E. G. Peoulx et al. (Indiana Sta. Bui. 228 

 (1919), pp. 3-170). — This bulletin furnishes data as to the ingredients identified 

 and the percentages of moisture, fat, and protein found in feeding stuff samples 

 collected in 1918, and includes a general discussion of the Indiana law similar 

 to that in previous reports (E. S. R., 40, p. 72). It is stated that reports of 

 the 1919 inspection will be issued quarterly and will record the complete proxi- 

 mate analyses of the samples collected. 



The materials dealt with include alfalfa meal, barley mixed feeds, malt 

 sprouts, brewers' dried grains, buckwheat mixed feed, coconut oil meal, corn 

 bran, corn germ meal, yellow corn germ meal, corn gluten feed, corn feed meal, 

 hominy feed, yellow hominy feed, corn-and-oat chop, cold pressed cotton seed, 

 cottonseed meal, cottonseed feed, cottonseed hulls, dried beet pulp, kapok seed 

 meal, linseed meal, linseed oil meal, linseed meal and screenings, oat middlings 

 and hulls, palm kernel oil meal, peanut oil feed, rice bran, rye middlings and 

 screenings, velvet bean feed, wheat bran, wheat middlings, wheat mixed feed, 

 mixed 'mill by-products, tin plate by-products, tankage, meat scrap, blood meal, 

 meat-and-bone meal, and dried buttermilk, as well as a number of proprietary 

 mixed feeds, poultry feeds, calf meals, and condimental foods. 



Inspection of commercial feeds, P. H. Wessels (Rhode Island Sta. Ann. 

 Feed But., 1919, pp. 2-12). — This is a report on the protein and fat content of 

 139 samples of feeding stuffs collected in 1918. The materials include alfalfa 

 meal, barley feed, cottonseed meal, linseed meal, corn gluten feed, hominy feed, 

 corn feed meal, distillers' and other dried grains, dried beet pulp, wheat bran, 

 wheat bran with screenings, wheat middlings, shorts, red dog, wheat mixed feed, 

 and various proprietary stock, calf, and poultry feeds. 



The Texas feed control law. — Special advice to dealers and distributors, 

 F. D. Fuller (Texas Sta. Control (J ire. A (1918), pp. 5-14, figs. 2). — This publi- 

 cation contains the text of the Texas Feed Control Law of 1907 and directions 

 for complying with it. The material is practically all included in Bulletin 

 234 (E. S. R., 40, p. 571). 



Farm feeds: Grains, mill feeds, and concentrates, their nature and compo- 

 sition, F. T. Shutt (Canada E.ipt. Farms, Bui. 36. 2. ser. (1919), pp. //8).— Recent 

 proximate analyses in the laboratory of the Dominion chemist of the following 

 products are reported : Wheat bran, wheat shorts, wheat middlings, red dog 

 (feed flour), ground barley, barley feed, ground oats, oat chop feeds, oat hulls, 



