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feed question can secure equally as good a ration at a little less 

 price. The point is : 7vill you buy your concentrates and mix them 

 yourself, or hire somebody to do it for you I 



Buffalo crea?nery feed, composed of corn, oat by-products and cot- 

 tonseed meal, met its guarantee. It cannot be considered particularly 

 economical at $26 a ton. 



Vu/can B /ended Grains, consisting of barley, mill by-products of 

 corn, oats and wheat, malt sprouts and meat scraps, fell several per 

 cent below its protein and fat guarantee. 



II. O. Dairy feed contained broken corn, mill by-products of oats 

 and wheat, cottonseed meal and peanuts. It more than met its 

 guarantee. 



Protena consisted of corn, oat and wheat by-products, and alfalfa 

 meal. It met its guarantee of 20 per cent protein and 3.5 per cent 

 fat and retailed at from $25 to $28 a ton. 



Alost of the above proprietary feeds must be regarded as expensive 

 tvhen compared with suitable home mixtures of standard grains and 

 byproducts. 



Sucrene dairy was guaranteed 16.50 per cent 



Molasses protein and tested 15.64 per cent. Sucrene horse 



Feeds. feed nearly met its guarantee. 



Page 20. Three samples of Green Diamond tested 12.13 P^"" 

 cent protein, and 1.96 per cent fat and were guaran- 

 teed to contain 16.50 protein and 3.50 fat. The manufacturers claim 

 that this deficiency was entirely unintentional and that they have 

 taken measures to correct it. 



One sample of Holstein, put out by F. \V. Goeke & Co. showed a 

 similar shortage. 



The Hammond, made by the Western Grain Products Co., was 

 guaranteed 17 per cent protein and analyzed 15.44 per cent. 



The manufacturers of some of these products must either reduce 

 their guarantees or conform to them. Neither the station nor the con- 

 sumer will long tolerate misrepresentations. 



Molassine ineal, an imported product, contained approximately two- 

 thirds molasses, while the balance consisted largely of some unrecog- 

 nized fibrous material used as an absorbent. The protein percentage 

 was 7.68 ; the price was not learned. Its chief value consists in 

 the molasses it contains, the latter being in a dry, easily handled 

 condition. 



