22 N. H. AGR. EXPERIMENT STATION [Bulletin 169 



MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTS. 



Alfalfa meal is the entire alfalfa hay ground and d©es 

 not contain an admixture of ground alfalfa straw or other 

 materials.* 



Meat meal is finely ground beef scraps.* 



Buckivheat shorts or middlings are that portion of the 

 buckwheat grain immediately inside of the hull after sepa- 

 ration from the flour.* 



Molasses feeds are generally a mixture of some filler such 

 as oat hulls, oat clippings, flax bran, or grain screenings 

 with molasses and a concentrated feed, such as cottonseed 

 meal, brewers' grains, or malt sprouts. 



Filler is a term used to designate certain by-products 

 generally of little feeding value used to give weight and 

 bulk to concentrated feeds in the manufacture of com- 

 pounded feeds. Among the materials commonly used as 

 fillers are : ground corn cobs, peanut hulls, oat hulls, cotton 

 seed hulls, grain screenings, flax plant stems and pods, 

 rice hulls, etc. These materials are ground so fine that 

 their presence is discovered only by careful examination, 

 sometimes only with the aid of a microscope. Most fillers 

 contain relatively small amounts of crude protein and 

 crude fat and large amounts of crude fibre. The presence 

 of a filler in some cases may actually decrease the value of 

 the concentrates present. 



Compound feeds are those feeds bearing trade names 

 which are not descriptive in any way of the materials which 

 have been used in their manufacture. They may contain 

 any mixture of stock feed materials and therefore cannot 

 be compared with standards of average composition. They 

 often represent various industrial by-products such, for 

 example, as are obtained in the manufacture of breakfast 

 foods. 



* Definitions markod (*) are those adopted by the Association of Feed Con- 

 trol Officials of the United States. 



