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happened to get hold of. Since then the field has broadened materially 

 until now the number of feed stuffs on the market, of the nature before 

 described, is greatly increased. Many of these feeds, besides being 

 low in protein, and hence undesirable from this standpoint, have gone 

 to the exact opposite extreme and put in an exceedingly large amount 

 of crude fibre-material practically useless as far as the nutritive effect 

 is concerned and besides being always abundantly supplied in the 

 roughage on the farm. This is distinctly a fraud and such feeds should 

 be driven from the market. This station has definitely proven that the 

 fertilizer law protects the user of fertilizers, for farmers can depend 

 upon it that fertilizers bearing the State license are what the guaranty 

 on the sack shows them to be. No one will dispute the good done in this 

 manner, but how much more essential is it that what the domestic 

 animals eat should be protected in the same way. 



There is another point against which we are helpless under the pres- 

 ent conditions and that is the utter lack of relation between the value 

 of the feed and the price asked. Some feeds which contain practically 

 nothing but oat-hulls, and worth no more per ton than sawdust, are 

 sold alongside of such excellent feed as bran. There are feeds con- 

 taining a fair percentage of protein sold for a much higher figure than 

 their value warrants. There is in the Michigan market today an entire 

 lack of any economic relation between the value of the feeds bought 

 and the price paid for the same. 



I desire to call your attention to fhe following table which will give 

 you an idea of a few feeds which nicely illustrate the points we have 

 attempted to discuss. 



Protein. Pat. Crude fibre. Cost per 



Name. Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. ton. 



Oats 11.80 5.00 9.50 



Corn 10.40 5.00 1.90 



Wheat .*. 11.90 2.00 1.80 



Oat Hulls 3.30 1.00 29.70 



Corn Cobs 2.40 0.50 30.10 



Bran 16.00 4.25 8.00 



Jersey Mixed Feed 12.81 3.65 15.01 |21 00 



Dairv Winter Feed 14.75 4.09 12.17 23 00 



Winter Mixed Feed 13.12 3.17 15.90 22 00 



Roval Oat Feed 4.82 2.75 25.40 17 50 



Victor C. and O. Feed ... 8.49 3.30 13.40 21 00 



Gluten Feed 25.01 8.73 7.00 



Gluten Meal 34.49 2.40 3.00 



Cotton Seed Meal 43.70 9.48 8.40 



Cotton Seed Hulls 4.20 2.20 46.30 



As a grain feed for dairy cows there are very few that will take the 

 place of wheat-bran and on the basis of bran let us consider briefly the 

 cost of protein in a few of the other feeds. 



Let us first take ''No. 8, Dairy Winter Feed," it being the best of 

 the five mixed feeds shown in the table. Now if bran with sixteen per 

 cent, protein costs |19 per ton — 100 pounds of protein in bran 

 will cost 15.93, while 100 pounds of protein in Dairy Winter Feed will 

 cost at 123.00 per ton, |7.79, or in other words, |1.86 more than in bran, 



