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The retail price asked for these goods is not warranted when 

 the ingredients which go into them are considered. Occasionally 

 molasses feeds are encountered which appear to be unpalatable to 

 stock, probably due to the excessive amount of weed seed used. 

 Some of the ingredients of molasses feeds not commonly known to 

 the Massachusetts feeder are as follows: 



Ground and bolted grain screenings^ cleaned grain screenings, 

 ground grain screenings, are all grain screenings especially prepared 

 for molasses feeds. It is understood that, in some instances, cer- 

 tain seeds having a greater commercial value than the remainder 

 of the screenings, are removed before grinding. 



Clipped oat by-product or oat clips is the by-product obtained 

 in the manufacture of clipped oats and may contain light, chaffy 

 material broken from the ends of the hulls, empty hulls, light im- 

 mature oats and dust. 



Corn feed meal is the siftings obtained In the manufacture of 

 cracked corn and table meal made from the whole grain. 



The calf meals collected represent the attempt of 



Calf Meals. several manufacturers to formulate satisfactory 



Page 23. partial milk substitutes for young calves. It is the 



opinion of the writer that most of them contain 

 substances that, while they do not add materially to the value of 

 the mixture as a milk substitute, do greatly increase their cost. 



Homcoline is a trade name applied to this par- 

 Miscellaneous tlcular brand of corn meal oil, a residue 



Protein Feeds. derived from the corn germ after extracting 



Page 24. the oil. 



Oat middlings are the floury portion of the 

 oat kernel separated from it in the milling of rolled oats. When 

 of good quality oat middlings have a feeding value equivalent to 

 standard middlings. 



Peanut oil meal, cocoanut meal. Both of these products are 

 residues from the extraction of oil and are not extensively fed In 

 Massachusetts. They are excellent protein concentrates. 



CXX Feed is a by-product from the Postum Cereal factory. 

 The results of a digestion experiment made at this station indicate 

 it to have a very low feeding value. 



Barley feed is a by-product from the milling of barley. The 

 sample collected was of excellent quality. 



