DIVISION OF FOODS AND FEEDING 



-J. 



Joseph B. Lindsey.* 



RESULTS AND SUGGESTIONS. 



1. The cottonseed meals shipped into Massachusetts the past 

 year were practically free from adulteration, yet the guaranteed meals 

 averaged one per cent higher in protein showing the advisability of 

 buying only branded goods. The guaranty in all cases should be 

 supported by the name of the manufacturer or wholesaler. 



Last spring several samples of dark colored meal were taken by 

 our inspectors and a number of others were sent in for examination 

 which upon analysis gave a high percentage of protein proving that 

 color alone is not a safe guide. 



2. Cleveland flax meal, old process and new process linseed 

 meals, gluten meals, and gluten feeds are of fair average composi- 

 sition with the exception of the old process linseed meals which are 

 low in many cases. 



3. Of the wheat feeds, the middlings show quite a wide variation 

 in percentage of protein as a result of different methods of manu- 

 facture ; the mixed feeds with few exceptions are of fair quality ; 

 and the brans are of a high and very uniform grade. 



4. The oat feeds show the most serious adulteration of any feeds 

 on the market. Many of them fall below seven per cent in protein 

 with an average of 45 per cent of coarse material. 



5. Protein Standards! of unadulterated Feed Stuffs are as follows : 



•Assisted by E. B. Holland, B. K. Jones, and F. W. Mossman. 



tBy " protein standard " is meant the per cent of protein an unadulterated feed should 

 contain. 



