DIVISION OF FOODS AND FEEDING. 



Joseph B. Lindsey.* 



RESULTS AND SUGGESTIONS. 



I. Farmers are especially cautioned against adulterated cottonseed 

 meal. Samples of this substance were found in a large number of 

 towns, especially iu northeastern Massachusetts, during the spring 

 months. Sea Island Cottonseed^ so called, is also very much infe- 

 rior to the genuine material. A prime cottonseed meal should have 

 a bright yellow color, and contain at least 6.75 per cent of nitrogen, 

 equivalent to 42 percent of protein. The adulterated meal con- 

 tains about 3.75 per cent nitrogen equal to 23.4 per cent protein. 

 It is therefore only one-half as valuable as the prime article. It is 

 evidently prepared by grinding the black hulls quite fine, and mixing 

 them with the yellow meal. The resulting product is as a rule of a 

 darker yellow than the pure meal. Samples of adulterated meal 

 have also been found that were bright yellow. This meal had either 

 been artificially colored or mixed with some inferior substance other 

 than hulls. We urge purchasers to buy only the guaranteed article, 

 and to absolutely refuse the unbranded meal. Pure cottonseed meal 

 is one of the very cheapest concentrated feed stuffs. 



II. Linseed meals, branded gluten meals, and gluten feeds, show 

 no adulterations. 



III. Wheat bran, middlings, and, with a few exceptions, mixed 

 feeds, have not been found to contain any foreign admixtures. 



He ilman's mixed feed was found to be of very poor quality. It 

 contained a large amount of woody material, of very little feeding 

 value. Several unmarked mixed feeds were similarly adulterated. 

 The Lexington mixed feed showed several per cent less protein than 

 the average. 



IV. Many unbranded oat feeds have been found to contain as 

 high as 65 per cent of hulls, and only from 5 to 7 per cent of pro- 



♦Assisted by E- B. Hollanp, B. K. Jones and F. W. Mobsman. 



