288 experimp:nt station record. 



the iiulhors, ''has about the same composition as gluten meal. It is readily eaten 

 by stock and is a safe food for milch cows when fed by itself or in combination with 

 other grain feeds." 



Concentrated feeding stuffs, L. A. Voorhees and J. P. Street {New Jemey Stas. 

 liul. 165, pp. 47) ■ — The feeding stuffs analyzed this season under the State law 

 included cotton-seed meal and feed, linseed meal, germ meal, gluten meals and feeds, 

 hominy meal, maizeline feed, cerealine feed, corn brans, distillers' grains, malt 

 sprouts, dried brewers' grains with and without molasses, mixed commercial feeds, 

 cereal breakfast food by-products, calf meal, animal meal, poultry feeds, wheat brans, 

 feeding flour, rye and wheat middlings, rye chop, buckwheat bran or middlings, 

 barley feed and meal, and peanut bran, middlings, and vines. 



"Of the 214 samples which are guaranteed and of which an examination has been 

 made, 69 fail in their promises, 50 of these being deficient in protein. Among the 

 242 samples of feeds not required to be guaranteed, 215 are found to be of normal 

 composition, about 24 vary from the same, for various reasons, and 3 are adulterated. 

 Particularly to be avoided are the materials which contain hulls of other seeds or of 

 their own in excess of that normally present." 



Analyses of concentrated commercial feed stuffs, W. Frear {Pennsylvania 

 State Dept. Agr. Bui. 107, pp. 61). — During the year 1902 analyses were made under 

 the State feeding stuff law of 263 samples of cattle feeds, including cotton-seed meal 

 and feed, linseed meal, rye chop and feed, malt sprouts, dried brewers' grains, rice 

 feed, oat feeds, corn chop, hominy feeds, gluten meals and feeds, cerealine feeds, 

 corn bran, germ oil meal, sugar feed, maizeline, mixed feeds, breakfast food 

 by-products, condimental feeds, animal meal, wheat bran, middlings, feed, chop, 

 screenings, and germ middlings. The different classes of feeds are discussed at some 

 length as regards their quality. A general failure to comply with legal requirements 

 as to guaranty was observed. 



The composition and digestibility of prairie hay and of buffalo-grass bay, 

 J. T. WiLLARD and E. W. Clothier {Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 18 {1901-2), pp. 69, 

 60). —Noted from another publication (E. S. R., 13, p. 480). 



The feeding value of rice products, C. A. Browne, Jr. {Louisiana Planter, 30 

 {1903), Nos. 34, pp. 383-385; 25, pp. 398-401). — In a paper presented before the Lou- 

 isiana Sugar Planters' Association, rice products are described, their feeding value 

 discussed, and investigations carried on at the Louisiana Station briefly reported. 

 The latter include determinations of the composition of rice bran, polish, meal, hulls, 

 and straw, and digestion experiments with steers. 



On an average rice bran was found to have the following coefficients of digestibility: 

 Dry matter 58 per cent, protein 64.7 per cent, fat 54.8 per cent, crude fiber 13.8 per 

 cent, nitrogen-free extract 78.1 per cent, and ash 33 per cent; and rice polish, dry 

 matter 82.5 percent, protein 65.6 per cent, fat 73.6 per cent, crude fiber 22.1 per cent, 

 nitrogen-free extract 92.7 j^er cent, and ash 31.4 per cent. A number of rations for 

 mules are suggested which contain rice products. The paper is followed by a 

 discussion. 



Dried sugar beets as food for farm animals, G. H. Murphy ( U. S. Consular 

 Rpts., 73 {1903), No. 276, pp. 108, 109).— A brief note quoting statements published 

 in the Blatter fur Zuckerrilhenbau on methods of drying beets and the value of the 

 product as a feeding stuff. 



White beans as a stock food, C. S. Plumb {Breeders' Gaz., 43 {1903), No. 14, p. 

 679). — According to the experience of a number of farmers in Michigan, waste beans 

 not suitable for market are a satisfactory feeding stuff for farm animals. The opin- 

 ion was generally held by local feeders that beans could be given to all classes of 

 stock. In the experience of one of the feeders quoted, a mixture of corn, oats, and 

 ground beans 2:1:1 gave good results with horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs. 



' ' The beans are fed cooked to pigs, but to other classes of stock in the dry and 



