DIVISION OF FOODS AND FEEDING 



Joseph B. Lindsey.* 



RESULTS AND SUGGESTIONS. 



.:,„i/f. CU^,>..,j^S'«ty-one samples of cottonseed meal collected, eleven 

 were not guaranteed ; eight of these latter were badly adulterated 

 with fine ground hulls. Farmers are urged to purchase only guaran- 

 teed meals. 



2. The gluten meals and feeds were free from adulteration and, 

 with a few exceptions, of excellent quality. They are among the 

 cheapest and best concentrated feeds. 



3. Wheat bran and middlings were of good quality. A number 

 of mixed feeds were adulterated with woody material similar 

 to fine ground corn cobs. Farmers are at present strongly urged 

 to carefully note in this bulletin the names of those brands of 

 mixed feed showing an analysis of 16 or more per cent of protein, 

 and to purchase accordingly. 



4. A considerable portion of the oat feeds upon the market are 

 of very inferior quality ; most of them cost nearly as much as corn 

 meal and are only one-half to two-thirds as valuable. 



5. A large proportion of the corn and oat feeds, or provenders, 

 consisted of mixtures of oaf offal and corn meal. It would be 

 economy to purchase the oats and corn separately and have them 

 ground by the local miller. 



6. Condimental stock foods consisted principally of cereals, 

 wheat offal, and linseed meal, together with some condiment such as 

 fenugreek, gentian, or fennel, as well as common salt, sulfates of 

 magnesia and soda, charcoal, iron, and occasionally pepper and 

 sulphur. 



♦Assisted by E. B. Holland, P. H. Smith Jr., and J. W. Kellogg. 



