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Now that an attached statement of ingredients is required as 

 well as the guaranteed protein, fat, and fiber content, the purchaser 

 need not be misled in regard to true composition. 



Many of the feeds in this group contain alfalfa 

 Molasses Feeds. as a Ijase and are intended primarily as a feed 

 (Less than 15 per for horses. Feeds of this character are All- 

 Cent Protein.) needa, Clover Leaf, H. & S., Arab Horse, 

 Pages 33-34. June Pasture, King Corn, and Purina. They 

 contained no inferior by-products. The aver- 

 age price asked for the preceding feeds was about $35 a ton, which 

 is considerably higher than their composition justifies. 



Other feeds in this group which contained screenings or other 

 low-grade products were Butterfat, Climax, International Special 

 Dairy, Purina Sweet, and Hammond Florse. 



Molassine Meal, an English product consisting of sphagnum 

 moss and molasses, is now being extensively sold in New England. 

 Experiments conducted at this station led us to conclude that from 

 the standpoint of nutrition this product cannot be considered an 

 economical feeding stuff. In many cases its value as a component 

 of horse feeds seems to have been fully demonstrated. 



The other brands here reported consist of whole crushed 

 grains, molasses, and by -products of good quality. 



in. Poultry Feeds. 



It has been demonstrated that fowls do best when 

 Animal a portion of the protein in their ration is furnished 

 Products, through the medium of animal foods. As mineral 

 Pages 36-37. matter such as lime, phosphoric acid, and other 

 necessary elements can be furnished more cheaply 

 in other forms, the best sources of animal food for poultry are those 

 which furnish the largest proportion of pure proteids for the least 

 money. For this reason a good quality of meat scraps free from 

 taint, or an excessive amount of bone is to be preferred to meat 

 and bone meals, which, while furnishing an abundance of mineral 

 elements, are relatively expensive. A careful study of the analy- 

 tical data will furnish valuable information to the poultryman in 

 regard to the best grades of meat scraps. 



Fish meals are being quite extensively offered and are found as 

 an ingredient of many prepared poultry mashes. They may be 

 composed of the waste from the manufacture of fish glue, the trim- 

 mings from the preparation of cured fish for market, or the so-called 

 fish pomace (derived from the menhaden after the extraction of 



