18 



Miscellaneous Feeds. — Velvet bean feed, a new product for Massachu- 

 setts, consists of the ground bean and pod of the velvet bean, which grows 

 freely in the South. With the exception of a rather higher fiber content, 

 it resembles wheat bran in composition, but has about 15 per cent, greater 

 feeding value. Without the addition of the pod it would be a much more 

 valuable feed. A number of lots have been shipped in too moist a condition, 

 which causes it to become musty and injures its feeding value. 



Hog feeds intended as complete grain rations for swine are new to Massa- 

 chusetts. Diamond Hog Feed is corn germ oil cake meal unmixed. It is 

 deficient in ash and high in protein, and, while it may be used as a component 

 of a pig ration, it is not advised as an exclusive feed. The other samples 

 consisted of various by-products, and will probably prove satisfactory for 

 the purpose intended. 



Rye Feeds. — Due to the shortage of wheat by-products and the increased 

 milling of rye, more rye feeds are being offered. The samples collected were 

 of good quality and equal to the corresponding wheat feeds in feeding value. 



Corn feed meal is a by-product in the manufacture of table meal and corn 

 flour from maize by the so-called non-degerminating process. It varies 

 greatly in appearance, depending upon the remaining proportion of the 

 starchy part of the kernel. The product put out by the wheat millers, who 

 are manufacturing corn flour on account of war conditions, consists largely 

 of corn bran and corn germ. Corn feed meal has been sold as hominy feed, 

 which it somewhat resembles in composition. Corn feed meal may be used 

 in the place of corn meal or hominy feed, although it is not quite equal to 

 either in food value. 



Hominy feed, in accordance with a ruling of the United States Food Ad- 

 ministration, should conform to the following definition : — 



Hominy feed, hominy meal or hominy chop shall be a kiln-dried mixture of the 

 mill run bran coating, the mill run germ, with or without a partial extraction of the 

 oil and a part of the starchy portion of the corn kernel obtained in the manufacture 

 of hominy, hominy grits, and corn meal by the degerminating process from clean, 

 sound, white corn, shall contain not to exceed 14 per cent, moisture, not to exceed 

 7 per cent, fiber, not less than 10 per cent, protein, not less than 5 per cent, fat, and 

 shall have a texture fine enough to sift through No. 12 wire bolting cloth. 



Yellow hominy feed, yellow hominy meal or yellow hominy chop shall conform 

 to the specifications for hominy feed, hominy meal or hominy chop in all respects 

 except that it shaU be made from clean, sound, yellow corn instead of white com. 



With the exception of one sample manufactured by the Arkadelphia 

 Milling Company, the hominy feeds collected conformed to the above defi- 



