276 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



" Even where effective drugs have been used, the amount of the mixture to be 

 given to the animal, according to the instructions of the manufacturer, is generally 

 so small that no possible benefit can be expected from its use." 



It is pointed out that the excessive cost of these feeds " would prohibit their use 

 by the careful and economical feeder" who could obtain and mix for himself the 

 ingredients likely to be of value "at from one-tenth to one-twentieth the cost of the 

 prepared foods." 



Concentrated feeding- stuffs, J. P. Street, W. P. Allen, and V. J. Carberry 

 ( Ni w Jersey Stas. Bui. 185, pp. 38). — The feeding stuffs analyzed under the provisions 

 of the State feeding stuffs law included 397 samples of cotton-seed meal, linseed 

 meal, cocoanut cake, germ-oil meal, gluten meal and feed, hominy meal, corn, bran, 

 or sugar feed, cerealine feed, germaline, maizeline feed, distillers' grains and similar 

 goods, malt sprouts, dried brewers' grains, molasses grains and feeds, mixed and pro- 

 prietary feeds, barley feed, dried-beet pulp, stock feed made from sugar beets, peanut 

 bran, peanut middlings, rice feed, poultry feeds, animal meal and calf meal, wheat-bran 

 middlings and feeding flour, wheat and rye middlings, rye bran and feed, corn meal, 

 ground mixed grains, cracked rice, "corn- wheat" and buckwheat middlings, bran, 

 and feed. 



Of the 159 different brands of feed received, and which should have been guaran- 

 teed, 14 failed to meet this requirement. Consumers should at all times insist upon 

 a guarantee, except for milling products, for which no guarantee is required. 



Of the 288 samples which were guaranteed, 114 were deficient, 75 of these being 

 low in protein. 



Of the 95 samples which did not require a guarantee, 79 were of normal composi- 

 tion, 12 were of inferior grade, and 4 were misbranded. 



Nine samples were found to be adulterated — linseed meal with cocoa shells, dried 

 brewers' grains with coffee hulls and wheat feed with corncob. 



The constantly increasing number of brands upon the markets requires, on the part 

 of the purchaser, close attention to the amount of nutrients guaranteed and the prices 

 asked for the same. 



The purchaser of protein will rarely find any feed containing less than 15 per cent 

 of protein a desirable or an economical purchase. 



Analyses of miscellaneous feeding stuffs, M. H. Pingree {Pennsylvania Sta. 

 Rpt. 1904, pp. 116-1-23). — The analyses reported include cotton-seed meal and feed, 

 sugar and oil meal, linseed meal (old and new process), flaxseed hulls, wheat bran, 

 middlings, and mixed feed, Eed Dog flour, wheat, gluten meal and feed, hominy, 

 hominy feed and chop, corn, buckwheat middlings, distillers' grains, brewers' 

 grains, molasses feed, beet-pulp feed, royal palm ( Oreodoxid regia) berries, meat meal 

 and similar goods, dried blood, and mixed and proprietary feeds. 



Commercial feeding- stuffs, H. J. Wheeler et al. (Rhode Island Sta. Bid. 105, 

 pp. 95-107). — Under the provisions of the State law regarding the sale of commercial 

 feeding stuffs analyses were made of a number of samples collected in the winter of 

 1904-5 including cotton-seed meal, linseed meal, gluten meal and feed, commercial 

 mixed feeds, proprietary feeds and similar goods, wheat bran, ship stuff, middlings 

 and shorts, hominy feed chop and similar products, corn meal, provenders, brewers' 

 grains, distillers' grains, molasses grains, malt sprouts, stock feeds, calf meal, poultry 

 feeds, dried molasses-beet-pulp, and peanut bran. 



One of the cotton-seed meals examined was apparently very grossly adulterated 

 with cotton-seed hulls. A mixed feed was also much adulterated and wheat bran 

 and a number of samples of gluten feed and meal were below the guarantees in cer- 

 tain respects. 



Security stock food, E. F. Ladd (North Dakota Sta. Rpt. 1904, pt. 1, pp. 29, 30).— 

 An analysis of this proprietary feeding stuff failed to bear out the claims made for it. 



