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The Wheat By-Products (Middlings, Bran and Mixed Feed). 



The Association of Feed Control Officials have adopted the following definitions 

 for the wheat by-products : ■ — ■ 



Wheat Products. 



Wheat Bran is the coarse outer coating of the wheat kernel as separated from cleaned and 

 scoured wheat in the usual process of commercial milling. 



Standard Middlings (Red Shorts or Brown Shorts) consists mostly of the fine particles of 

 bran, germ and very little of the fibrous offal obtained from the "tail of the mill." This product 

 must be obtained in the usual commercial process of milling. 



Gray Shorts (Gray Middlings or Total Shorts) consists of the fine particles of the outer bran, 

 the inner or "bee-wing" bran, the germ and the offal or fibrous material obtained in the usual 

 commercial pi'ocess of flour milling. 



Flour Middlings shall consist of standard middlings and red dog flour combined in the pro- 

 portions obtained in the usual process of milling. 



White Shorts or White Middlings consists of a small portion of the fine bran particles and the 

 germ, and a large portion of the fibrous offal obtained from the "tail of the mill." This product 

 must be obtained in the usual process of flour milling. 



Red Dog Flour consists of a mLxture of low-grade flour, fine particles of bran and the fibrous 

 offal from the "tail of the mill." 



Wheat Mixed Feed (Mill Run Wheat Feed) consists of pure wheat bran and the gray or total 

 shorts or flour middlings combined in the proportions obtained in the usual process of commercial 

 milling. 



Wheat Bran and Standard Middlings consists of the two commodities as defined above, mixed 

 in the proportions obtained in the usual process of commercial milling. 



Screenings consists of the smaller imperfect grains, weed seeds and other foreign materials, 

 having feeding value, separated in cleaning the grain. 



Scoxirings consists of such portions of the cuticle, brush, white caps, dust, smut and other 

 materials as are separated from the grain in the usual commercial process of scouring. 



Note. — If to any of the wheat by-product feeds there should be added screenings or scour- 

 ings, as defined, either ground or unground, bolted or unbolted, such brand shall be so registered, 

 labeled and sold as clearly to indicate this fact. The word "screenings" or "scourings," as the 

 case may be, shall appear as a part of the name or brand, and shall be printed in the same size 

 and face of type as the remainder of the brand name. When the word "screenings" appears it is 

 not necessary to show also on the labeling the word "scourings." 



These definitions if followed in the labeling of wheat by-products, especially in the 

 case of wheat middlings, would do away with considerable confusion. At the present 

 time it is much safer for the consumer to purchase either standard or flour middlings 

 by their appearance rather than by the name under which they are sold. Wheat mixed 

 feed also varies to a greater or less extent, especially in flour middlings content, and 

 it is believed that much of the wheat mixed feed sold is a blended product rather than 

 mill run. The product sold as wheat mixed feed by the Portland Flouring Mills was 

 very largely wheat bran, while Fancy, Planet and Wirthmore wheat mixed feeds 

 consisted of a mixture of wheat bran and flour middlings. 



Rye Feeds. 



Three samples of rye feed were collected which were of good quality. 



The Cereal Meals. 



The straight cereal meals examined were all of good qualit3^ Two samples of 

 corn feed meal, a by-product from the manufacture of corn flour and table meal, some- 

 what resembled hominy feed in composition. 



