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that the protein it contains is equal pound for pound to the digestible 

 protein in cottonseed meal. 



Prepared tankage guaranteed to contain 60 per cent protein, con- 

 sists of slaughter house ofFal, — refuse meat, bones, intestines, etc., — 

 which has been cooked under considerable steam pressure in large 

 tanks or digesters. It is especially recommended as a food for pigs, 

 and also for cattle. The Iowa and Indiana stations have found one 

 part tankage and five parts corn to be quite superior to corn alone as 

 a food for pigs. At the present time retail prices have not been 

 established in Massachusetts.. It is the intention of this department 

 to give further attention to such feed stuffs. 



Under this name a feed for horses has recently 

 Blomo feed been placed upon the market. It is composed 

 for horses. of blood, molasses and ground corn stalks or 



similar material, is guaranteed to contain 15 per 

 cent of protein, and costs at the rate of $1.50 a hundred pounds. 

 Such substances as blood and molasses have been found by experi- 

 menters to be quite satisfactory feeds for animals. It is intended to 

 test this feed the present winter. 



This mixture consisted of dried brewers' grains and 



Dried brewers' malt sprouts to which has been added what molasses 



grains and the dried grains would absorb. The feed was of 



molasses. rather a sticky nature but could be easily handled. 



It contained about 18 per cent protein and 35 per 

 cent of water soluble material. The price asked, $1.15 a hundred 

 pounds at retail^ — could not be considered very excessive, and the 

 material should make a satisfactory dairy feed, providing the grains 

 are of good quality, (e. g. dried when fresh) and the mixture could 

 be depended upon to run even in composition. 



This feed is composed principally of distillers' dried 



Biles Union grain, hominy meal and malt sprouts. The manu- 



grains. facturers also claim some mill feed as well as small 



quantities of cottonseed and linseed meals. The 

 feed is bulky, fails to show the presence of any cheap filler and the 

 price asked(^28 a ton at retail)is not much in excess of its real value. 

 It is believed that feeders can prepare practically as satisfactory 

 grain rations for rather less money by doing their own mixing. 



Rye feed, z. m\y.\.\xx& of rye bran and rye middlings, while not 

 strictly a new feed, is by no means as common as wheat by-products. 



