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that the farmer could get better values for his 

 produce thus fed to the cattle than by selling 

 the produce on the market. 



Other stations pay close attention to the 

 values of commercial feeding stuffs, for which, 

 sometimes, extravagant claims are made. The 

 Vermont Station, for example, made investiga- 

 tion during 1905 into one hundred and fifty 

 kinds of these stock foods, the by-products of 

 oil mills, distilleries, glucose and breakfast- 

 food factories. These were tested chiefly for 

 protein. While some samples were wholly 

 satisfactory, many were found short in protein. 

 "The gluten goods," says a bulletin from the 

 Vermont Station, "particularly the feeds, are 

 consistent in their failures to meet guaranties. 

 The shortage in the protein in the distillers' 

 dried grains is getting to be perennial. A 

 large proportion of the oat and corn feeds, the 

 output of the oatmeal mills or of mixers, failed 

 to meet the claims made for them." The bul- 

 letin makes note of the fact, in considering one 

 of the lines of feeds, that there is one redeem- 

 ing feature, the poorer the feeds are the 

 better, since such a condition will tend, in 

 the long run, to lessen their sales. 



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