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X. 11. AGR. EXPERIMENT STATION. 



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and the other inelndiiig-the various mixtures, mashes and scrateh- 

 ini; feeds, some of which nre wliollv from cereals mid others 

 include both cereals and <iiiiiii.il iiuittcr. 



In the purchase of mashes, the buyer should scrutinize the 

 material carefully for excess of fiber in the form of oat hulls 

 or similar waste. II-O and American Poultry Foods contained 

 respectively 5.50 per cent, and 4.50 per cent, of liber, wliilr 

 "Wirthmore ]Mash Feed contained 12 per cent. A glance at the 

 three would show what lui^lit appear to be oats ground with 

 the other material, but in the last case, not even light weight 

 oats alone should show as much as 12 per cent, fiber; hence, 

 oat hulls must be inferred as forming a part of the mixture. 



POULTRY FEEDS. 



Manufacturer and Brand. 

 Animal Matter. 



American Agricultural Chemical Co. 



Bradley's Superior Meat Meal... 



Darling'.s Bone Meal 



Ground Beef Scraps 



Armour & Co. 



Armour's Beef Scraps . ... 



Armour's Blood Meal 



Beach Soap Co. 



Pure Ground Beef Scraps 



Bowker Fertilizer Co. 



Bowker's Animal Meal 



Hinckley Rendering Co. 



Beef Scraps, two samples 



Protein. 



Found. 



Guaran- 

 teed. 



George E. Marsh, Lynn, Mass. 



Marsh's Poultry Food 



Swift's Lowell Fertilizer Co. 



Swift's Lowell Beef Scraps 



Mixtures, Mashes, etc 



C. M. Co.x Co. 



Wirthmore Mash Feed 



Thomas W. Emerson. 



EmersoD's Chick Feed 



H-O Company. 



H-O Poultry Food 



W. K. Kimball, Rochester, N. H. 



Kimball's Poultry Food 



Carroll S. Page. Hyde Park, Vt 



Page's Perfected Poultry Food, two samples 



Quaker Oat Co. 



American Poultry Food 

 Ralston Mills Co. 



Purina Alfalfa Meal 



33.61 

 23.78 

 43.96 



60.10 

 80.40 



40.27 



48.18 



33.87 

 35.36 



39.57 



40. 36 



30. 

 '46. 



40. 

 40. 

 40. 



36. 

 40. 



13.52 



10.18 



16.14 



20.01 



20.27 

 22.64 



10.62 



15.40 



20. 

 9. 



17. 



24. 



12. 

 15. 



Fat. 



Found. 



16.92 



5.89 



15.93 



14.30 

 1.74 



17.91 



9.75 



12.69 

 12.39 



9.60 



15.26 



5.04 



4.07 



5.72 



5.95 



7.31 

 7.68 



5.72 



3.19 



Guaran- 

 teed. 



5. 

 15. 



20. 



5. 



10. 



8. 

 15. 



3.6 



4. 



5.50 



8. 



3.5 



1.5 



