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Wheat feeds. Owing to the inferior quality of the 1904 wheat, 

 millers were unable to recover as large a proportion of the fiour as 

 usual. The resulting offal, being abnormally starchy, naturally con- 

 tained less than the usual percentage of protein and fat. 



Many of the wheat by-products contained an undue amount of 

 screenings, such as oats, hulls, pieces of straw and weed seeds, and 

 quite often corn. The latter varied in quantity from a mere trace to 

 some 30 per cent. Tlie inferior wheat itself was sometimes incor- 

 porated.* 



Molasses feeds — Sucrene, Holstein and Hammond — consisted of 

 some fine cut absorbent, malt sprouts and molasses, fortified with cot- 

 tonseed meal or other protein concentrate. Unless well dried they 

 decompose during warm weather. Such feeds usually met their guar- 

 antees, but are not as economical as genuine high grade protein by- 

 products. 



Corn meal. Considerable inferior corn meal was offered, 

 due to the inferior quality of the 1904 crop. Mouldy and 

 sour corn meal may show a satisfactory chemical analysis, and still 

 be unsuited for feeding horses and dairy stock. Such material, 

 usually offered at a discount, can be used with care as a food for 

 swine Under the present feed law, no restrictions are placed upon 

 the sale of poor corn. Purchasers can generally detect such a con- 

 dition, and reputable dealers would not knowingly offer it for first 

 class stock. 



Hominv vical was bright, clean, sweet and of satisfactory compo- 

 sition. Considerable yellow hominy, made from yellow corn, was 

 offered. It is equal in value to white meal. 



Foul try foods. A great variety of poultry foods was collected. 

 Practically all were free from objectionable admixtures. A descrip- 

 tion of these feeds can be found by consulting Bulletin No. loi. 



* Buyers should refuse to inucliase feed to which has been added an undue proportion 

 of iiuUs and screeninj^s. 



