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352. Composition of cottonseed oil by-products. 

 The composition of the cottonseed oil by-products is 

 the following: 



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These figures represent the composition of the several 

 materials when the separations are fairly complete. 

 Cottonseed products are sometimes sold, however, in a 

 more or less mixed condition. There has-been found 

 in the market undecorticated cottonseed meal, or the 

 meal with all the hulls ground in without removal from 

 the seed. The meal that is free from hulls should be 

 light yellow in color and have a slightly nutty flavor. It 

 should show few or no black specks, because the presence 

 of these indicate either accidental or intentional adul- 

 teration with hulls. Cottonseed meal now contains less 

 protein than was formerly the case, which means, un- 

 doubtedly, that a larger proportion of hulls or lint, or 

 both, is present. Cottonseed feed is a finely-ground mix- 

 ture of cottonseed hulls and cottonseed meal, and its value 

 is less than that of the pure meal. 



353. Linseed meal (oil meal). The original source of 

 this feeding-stuff is the flax plant. This plant serves 

 a very useful purpose in producing a valuable fiber, 

 and oil which now seems indispensable as a constituent 

 of paint and a high-class stock-food. Flaxseed, of which 



