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cereals, carob bean and fenugreek, has been tested at this station 

 and found satisfactory as a partial milk substitute for young robust 

 calves. The price asked. $3.50 a hundred pounds, is not considered 

 extravagant. 



Blovwfeed, molasses feed, oat middlings and rye feeds are spoken of 

 under New Feeds. 



II. Starchy Feeds. 



Corn meal showed rather less protein than usual, 

 Corn and due to the rather inferior character of the 1902 corn 

 hominy meals, crop. No adulteration was observed. 

 Pages 28-2g. Thirty-two samples of hominy put out by 12 differ- 

 ent manufacturers were collected. They averaged 

 10.27 V^^ c^'""*^ protein and 7.88 per cent fat In company with corn 

 meal, hominy was rather below the average of former years, in both 

 ingredients. It is believed that 10.50 per cent protein and 8 per 

 cent fat would be the proper minimum guarantees. At the prevail- 

 ing market prices hominy is one of the most economical starchy 

 feeds. It was free from adulteration. 



Provenders. True provender consists of a mixture of ground or 

 cracked oats and cracked corn or corn meal and should contain 10 

 per cent protein and 4 per cent fat. A number of samples were col- 

 lected of local millers and averaged 9.58 per cent protein and 3.62 

 per cent fat. They are to be preferred to mixtures of oat offal 

 and poor corn. 



These are mixtures of oat offal and corn or hominy 



Corn and meal, in many cases fortified with a little flour mid- 



oat feeds. dlings or red dog, to bring up the protein percent- 



Pages jo-ji. age. They varied in composition from 7.19 to 



1 1. 41 per cent of protein with an average of 9.17 



per cent, and from 1.81 to 7.07 per cent fat, averaging 4.31 per cent. 



Judging from the number of brands in the market, they are profitable 



feeds to manufacture, and offer a convenient way of disposing of the 



oat offal. They are sold at from $1.15 to $1.40 a hundred pounds. 



In the writer's judgment, the best of the feeds is worth 10 per cent 



less than corn meal. T/ie Great IVesteni dairy feed, now said to be 



withdrawn from the market, was very noticeably below the guaranty. 



HaskelPs oat and HaskelVs stock feeds, fell decidedly below the 



guaranty of the maker, especially in protein. The same may be said 



of Lenox stock feed, put out by the Strong-Lefferts Company. 



