27 



feeding oats. Flax plant by-product is the residual material left after separating the 

 flax fiber from the flax plant. 



Of the mineral supplements, salt is used in most of the dairy feeds. Bone nieal 

 (used but once) furnishes lime and phosphorus. Charcoal has no feed value but 

 tends to check fermentation in the digestive tract. 



In any event the use of inferior material is of such frequent occurrence that the 

 purchaser should read the guarantee tag in order to be informed of what he is really 

 purchasing. 



Hog Feeds. 



Seven brands of hog feeds were collected, the average retail price of which was 

 about $2.50 a hundred. On the other hand, the average price of flour middlings 

 was S2.30 and of corn meal $2.00 a hundred. While these prepared pig feeds con- 

 tained tankage and in some cases dried buttermilk as well as other material which 

 would increase their cost, it is not believed that their use in Massachusetts for 

 economical pork production is warranted. 



Calf Meals. 



Ten brands of calf meal were collected. The guaranteed ingredients follow: 



Blatchford's Calf Meal. — Locust bean meal, flaxseed, blood flour, rice polish, 

 linseed meal, milk albumen, barley meal, ground beans, cocoa shell meal, wheat flour, 

 cocoanut oil meal, recleaned cottonseed meal, fenugreek, anise, salt. 



Eastern States Calf Meal. — Red Dog flour, soluble blood flour, linseed oil 

 meal, oat flour, ground barley, corn meal, bone meal, salt, calcium carbonate. 



Elmore Calf Meal. — Red Dog flour, corn meal, oatmeal, linseed meal, reground 

 malted barley, blood meal, dried buttermilk, bone meal, salt. 



Eshelman's Calf Meal. — • Cooked and baked wheat feed, Imseed meal, wheat 

 middlings, wheat flour, oatmeal, ground Kafir corn, blood meal, ground flaxseed. 



Stevens' Milkade Calf Meal. — Ground malt, linseed meal, wheat bran, wheat 

 flour, cocoanut oil meal, bone meal, rice polish, cocoa shell meal, wheat middlings, 

 sesame oil meal, blood flour, calcium carbonate, fenugreek, anise, salt. 



Purina Calf Chow. — Blood flour, linseed meal, hominy feed, wheat flour, corn 

 feed meal, salt. 



Cream Quality Calf Meal. — Wheat flour, linseed meal, recleaned cottonseed 

 meal, cocoanut oil meal, beans and lentils, hominy feed, locust bean meal, blood 

 flour, ground flaxseed, malt flour, cocoa shell meal, dried buttermilk, fenugreek, 

 anise, calcium carbonate, salt. 



Schumacher Calf Meal. — Oatmeal, ground flaxseed, ground puffed wheat, 

 linseed meal, milk albumen, blood flour, bicarbonate of soda. 



Tioga Calf Food. — Oatmeal flour, bolted cottonseed meal, wheat middlings, 

 linseed meal, cocoanut oil meal, blood flour, phosphate of lime, cane molasses, salt. 



The Security Food Compound for calves and hogs is more of a condimental feed 

 than a milk substitute. It was not registered and no information is at hand which 

 would indicate the ingredients it contains. 



While it is believed these mixtures will prove satisfactory for the purpose intended, 

 it is probably true that some of them contain material which does not add to their 

 value, for example, the cocoa shell meal. 



Miscellaneous Protein Feeds. 



Feeds m this group all contain either wheat mixed feed or wheat bran as a base 

 together with either rye, corn or oat products. They are probably sold as wheat 

 feed substitutes. The Welden and Milk-Mor brands contain corn flour in addition 

 to the wheat. E-G-Co. Mixed Feed is a mixture of wheat bran, wheat middlings and 

 rye feed. Golden Grist Mixed Feed contains oat feed in addition to wheat bran and 

 middlings. 



