INSPECTION OF COMMERCIAL FEEDSTUFFS 29 



Feeds Not Conforming to Guarantees. 



A study of this table as published over a period of years indicates that no 

 single manufacturer or group of manufacturers can be selected as consistent 

 offenders. For the present year variations from guarantee were in most cases 

 so slight as to be immaterial from a practical feeding standpoint, even though 

 they exceeded the limits set for our tabulation. 



A brand of fish meal purchased by John Reardon & Sons and put out under 

 their own name was found to be of low protein content in practically every 

 case where it was sampled. This company had purchased the goods in good 

 faith, and voluntarily substituted to the dealers a better quality of fish meal 

 wherever the lower grade had been sold. 



The number of feeds listed in the deficiency compilation is practically the 

 same as for the preceding year, namely 4 per cent. 



Certified Ingredients. 



The Massachusetts feeding stulTs act requires that prepared feeds containing 

 two or more ingredients shall carry as a part of their guarantee the name of 

 each ingredient used. The accuracy of these statements is checked through 

 microscopic examination. In order to enable the purchaser to compare the 

 ingredient content in several of the important groups, this information is 

 given for the samples of dairy feeds, starting and growing mashes and laying 

 mashes collected. Brands registered but not found by the inspector are 

 omitted, as well as those registered in 1930 and not re-registered for 1931. 

 The chemical composition of the feeds listed is given elsewhere in this bulletin. 



The terms used to describe ingredients should be concise and accurate. 

 Where a patented mixture is used as a source of vitamins or minerals, its 

 name should be followed by a description that will identify its contents. 



The term "oat feed" while illegal in many states, is satisfactory in Mas- 

 sachusetts where it has been used in every bulletin published since 1897. 

 Many states require that this product be called "oat meal mill by-product 

 (oat shorts, hulls and middlings)." 



Allied Mills, Inc. 



Amco 24% Dairy Ration 



Corn gluten feed, corn gluten meal, cottonseed oil meal, linseed oil meal o. p., wheat standard 

 bran, corn meal, ground oats, dried malt grains, soy bean oil meal, ground barley, ground 

 wheat, cane molasses, steamed bone meal, ground limestone, salt. 



Amco 20% Dairy Ration 



Corn gluten feed, corn gluten meal, cottonseed oil meal, linseed oil meal o. p., wheat 

 standard bran, corn meal, ground oats, dried malt grains, soy bean oil meal, ground barley, 

 ground wheat, cane molasses, steamed bone meal, ground limestone, salt. 



Amco Growing Mash with Meat Scraps 



Wheat standard bran, wheat flour middlings, corn meal, fine ground oats, meat scraps. 



Amco 20% National Dairy Ration 



Corn gluten feed, cottonseed oil meal, linseed oil meal o. p., wheat standard bran, corn meal, 

 ground oats, corn distillers dried grains, peanut oil meal, ground barley, ground wheat, cane 

 molasses, steamed bone meal, ground limestone, salt. 



Amco Egg Mash 



Wheat standard bran, wheat flour middlings, corn meal, fine ground oats, meat scraps. 



Amco Starting and Growing Mash 



Ground oatmeal, wheat standard bran, wheat flour middlings, corn meal, dried buttermilk 

 and dried skim milk, meat scraps, fish meal, alfalfa mash meal, steamed bone meal, ground 

 limestone. 



Amco 16 H% Sucrene Dairy Ration 



Dried malt grains, cottonseed oil meal, linseed oil meal o. p., corn gluten feed, corn meal, 

 wheat standard bran, ground and bolted screenings from flax, wheat, corn, oats and barley, 

 cane molasses, ground limestone, salt. 



