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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The analyses, reduced to the same moisture content, are given below: 



BRAN. • 



(Amounts stated in pounds per hundred weight.) 



SIIOKTS. 



(Amounts stated in pounds per hundred weight) 



Manufacturer 



Water 



Protein 



(from duster) 



Pure 



Protein 



(from packer) 

 Mixed 



Shannon & Mott, Des Moines. 



9.48 



18.40 



At some mills a system of "padding" is carried on. That is, a sack 

 is partially filled with shorts and the balance of the sack filled with bran. 

 The whole is then sold at shorts prices. Sweepings from the floor are also 

 used as padding. 



Corn and oat chops is one of the most widey used feeds in the State, 

 and one that shows the greatest variety of composition. Many local mill- 

 ers complain that they cannot buy corn and oats and grind them at a 

 profit in competition with the brands of this product that are shipped 

 in from outside their vicinity. These "shipped-in" chops invariably con- 

 tain oat hulls, light oats, ground cob, and milling offal that render it pos- 

 sible for them to be offered at a figure the local grinder cannot touch. 



The cereal mills are offering oat hulls at about $7.00 per ton. Corn 

 and oat chop is selling at from $15.50 to $25.00 per ton. From a number 

 of samples in our collection it is evident that the temptation to mix oat 

 hulls with this feed has proven too great for many millers to resist. We 

 have found this feed lo be composed of: 



Pure ground oats and pure corn meal (free from hulls). 



Pure ground oats and pure ground corn. 



Ground 'oats, corn and corn cob. 



Whole oats and cracked corn. 



Light oats, corn and corn bran. 



Ground oats, oat hulls and ground corn. 



Shredded oat hulls and cracked corn. 

 The mixed feed industry presents a problem of unusual interest. Such 

 feeds are made to sell and too often but little regard is paid to the in- 

 trinsic value of the mixture. A number of manufacturers use shredded 

 oat hulls as the base of each of the feeds they place on the market — com- 

 bining this offal with corn, barley, and other grains. Such feeds are mar- 

 keted under fanciful or standard names, at fanciful or standard prices. 

 It is the common practice to work oat and corn hulls, and other milling 

 offal into the mixed feeds Iowa farmers are buying. 



