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of corn becomes available, the quantity and variety of feed 

 stuffs nuist be greatly increased. 



In general, it may be said that the better grades of con- 

 centrated feeds, such as cotton-seed meal, linseed meal, the 

 gluten and unmixed wheat products, are practicall}^ free from 

 adulteration. Exceptions to this statement are to be found 

 in the frequent admixture of wheat screenings with wheat 

 bran, and in an entire car of so-called "Fancy Canada Bran," 

 containing a very large admixture of coffee hulls, — a worth- 

 less feeding material. 



Mixed feed, a trade name for a mixture of 1,200 to 1,800 

 pounds of wheat bran and 200 to 800 pounds of fine mid- 

 dlings and " red dog," is often seriously adulterated by sub- 

 stituting ground corn cobs or broom-corn waste for the 

 middlings. This falsification is not practised by reputable 

 millers, but by unscrupulous outside parties, or possibly by 

 small millers in remote localities. It is hardly necessary to 

 remark that this material is sold at the same price as the 

 genuine. A considerable variety of oat offal is always in 

 the market, and in some cases it is guaranteed to contain a 

 noticeably higher percentage of protein than is shown by 

 analysis. The manufacturers' attention has been called to 

 this misrepresentation, but they do not choose to rectify it. 

 A large amount of so-called provender consists of mixtures 

 of oat offal and cracked corn in place of ground oats and 

 corn. It is believed that this deception is increasing. The 

 larger part of the oat offal in the market is sold at prices 

 much in advance of its value. 



Among the new feeds in the market the past year may be 

 mentioned dried distillers' grains, — the residue in the manu- 

 facture of alcohol, spirits and whiskey, from the several 

 cereals ; and nutrene dairy feed. This latter product is 

 made in Louisiana, and consists of cheap molasses soaked 

 up in oat clippings or similar material, with the addition of 

 a little cotton-seed meal, hulls, etc. Its exact value is at 

 present uncertain. 



Attention was called in the last report to the need of a 

 new feed law, and the reasons therefor made as explicit as 

 possible. This need cannot be too strongly emphasized -at 



