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Mixed Cereal Meals. 



Eleven brands of ground corn and oats are reported. They were unadulterated. 

 There is evidently a growing demand for the so-called steam-cooked feeds consisting 

 of coarsely crushed corn and oats. Quality Steam-cooked Horse Feed, Thorobred 

 Horse Feed, Imperial Steam-cooked Horse Feed, 1795 Steam-cooked Corn and Oats, 

 and Horse-Sense Grain Feed are examples of this class. They consisted approximately 

 of 50 per cent corn and 50 per cent oats and retailed at an average price of $51.00 

 per ton. If they have been sterilized by steam as the name implies, the fact cannot 

 be detected by their appearance. 



Stock and Horse Feeds. 



In general this group contains feeds sho'^\'ing from 8 to 12 per cent protein and 

 having oat feed as a base, together with other products of higher digestibility. A 

 few contain no oat feed or other low-grade material, this fact being indicated in the 

 fiber classification on the opposite page. The feeds with the lower fiber content are 

 to be preferred. 



Molasses Feeds (less than 15 per cent protein). 



The greater number of feeds found in this group are intended for horse feeds. 

 Corn, oats, alfalfa and molasses are the ingredients most frequently used. A number 

 of brands contained one or more inferior products. Champion Challenge Dairy 

 Feed, International Special Dairy Feed and Minnesota Dairy Feed contained grain 

 screenings, the latter being made up entirely of grain screenings, molasses and salt. 



Clipped oat by-product, which is the dust, hulls and light oats separated from 

 clipped oats, was found in Garden Spot Horse Feed, Kingfalfa Horse Feed, Inter- 

 national Horse Feed, and Chelsea Horse Feed. Oat hulls were numbered among 

 the ingredients found in Crescent Horse Feed, Tom Boy Stock Feed, Green Cross 

 Horse Feed, and Whittemore's Horse Feed. 



Pul-Mor Horse Feed contained oat huUs and flax shives, both quite inferior in 

 nutritive value. 



Inspection of Poultry Feeds. 

 Alfalfa Meal. 



Three brands of alfalfa meal were collected. These were quite uniform in com- 

 position and fuUj^ as good in quality as average alfalfa hay. 



Poultry Mashes and Meals. 



Eighteen samples of starting feeds, 32 samples of growing feeds and 90 samples of 

 laying mashes were collected. Perfect Dry Mash, Crosby Poultry Mash, Best of All 

 Dry Mash, Diehl's Dry Mash, Layinor Mash, Greene's Poultry Mash, and Randall's 

 Mash contained oat feed. Blatchford's Chick Mash, Bl^tchford's Fill-The-Basket 

 Egg Mash, and Wyandotte Mash Feed contained cocoa shell meal. It is not believed 

 that either cocoa shell meal or oat feed will add to the value of a poultry ration. 

 Greene's First Feed for Baby Chicks, Greene's Grofast Chick Mash, Laymor Mash, 

 Greene's Poultry Mash, Blue Top Egg Mash and Ful-0-Pep Dry Mash contained 

 screenings. There is a wide variation in the quality of screenings. If they consist 

 very largely of small and broken grain they may be of considerable value providing 

 they do not contain injurious weed seeds. Greene's First Feed for Baby Chicks 

 contained 21.63 per cent of ash. This high ash content was due either to the shell 

 lime or to the meat and bone scrap that the feed contained. Such a high content of 

 ash is not advisable nor desirable. Grit and lime can be furnished much cheaper than 

 as an ingredient of a mash. 



