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Miscellaneous Feeds. 



Apex and Golde^ Grist Mixed Feeds are combinations of wheat products and oat 

 feed. The fiber content would indicate that onlj^ a small amount of oat feed has been 

 added. 



Dried Corn Flake Feed is, as the name indicates, waste from the manufacture of 

 corn flakes. Its analysis would indicate that it is about equal in feeding value to 

 corn meal. 



Palmo Middlings are a mixture of wheat middlings and palm oil. At one stage in 

 the manufacture of tin plate, the plates are immersed in a bath of palm oil. Later the 

 oil which adheres to the plates is removed by scouring with wheat middlings. After 

 being used for this purpose the material is placed on the market as Palmo Middlings. 

 When free from slugs and splinters of metal, there is no reason why it should not form 

 a satisfactory feeding stuff. 



Burts Cereal Feed is the dried residue resulting from the manufacture of Instant 

 Postum. It is not particularly desirable as a feeding stuff, being of rather low di- 

 gestibility. 



Inspection of Poultry Feeds. 



Clover and Alfalfa Meals. 



The clover and alfalfa meals collected were of fair quality. 



Poultry Mashes and Meals. 



The sale of commercial mixtures for poultry appears to increase from year to year, 

 both in total volume and in the number of brands offered. There is an apparent de- 

 crease in the number of brands carrying alfalfa meal, while dried skim milk and dried 

 buttermilk, particularly the latter, appear more often as ingredients both of the 

 chick starting feeds and laying mashes. As a whole, the samples collected conformed 

 closely to guarantee. The variation in guarantee and ingredients used, however, al- 

 lows a wide range of choice to poultrymen holding different opinions as to what con- 

 stitutes an ideal mash. For the small farm or back-yard flock, the commercial mixtures 

 will prove as satisfactory from the standpoint of convenience as a home mixture. 

 The commercial poultryman is likely to find it advantageous to mix his own rations and 

 adapt them to the conditions under which the flock must be kept and to the material 

 available. 



Inspection of Animal By-Products. 



Meat Scraps, Meat and Bone Scraps. 



As the phosphoric acid content of meat products is an index of the bone which they 

 contain, this material is divided into two groups, depending upon the amount present. 

 Those containing less than 10 per cent of phosphoric acid are designated as meat 

 scrap; those containing more, as meat and bone scrap. With few exceptions, the meat 

 scraps contain 50 per cent of protein or more, while the meat and bone scraps contain 

 less. Meat scraps are a desirable source of animal protein. Based on the protem con- 

 tent and price of the samples collected, a pound of protein as furnished by meat scraps 

 would cost 8 cents, while a pound of protein furnished by meat and bone scraps would 

 cost 9 cents. In addition to furnishing a unit of protein somewhat cheaper, the meat 

 scraps are usually cleaner and freer from foreign material than the meat and bone 

 products. 



