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free from adulteration. Imperial Steam Cooked Feed, a mixture 

 of cracked corn and crushed oats, is included in this group. It 

 contains rather more corn than the local ground provenders and 

 sells at a higher price. 



Corn and oat feeds contain corn or hominy meal, together with 

 oat hulls, light oats and oat middlings. Other cereals or their 

 by-products and alfalfa meal are occasionally present. A study 

 of the different brands collected, shows them to vary in price from 

 $28.00 to $33.00 a ton. They varied in protein content from about 

 6 to 12 per cent, in fat from about 2 to 8 per cent, and in fiber 

 from about 5 to 16 per cent. Those brands which contain the 

 smaller amounts of fiber (less than 10 per cent), if free from mould 

 and rancidit}', can often be profitably used in feeding horses, 

 but cannot be recominended as satisfactory or economical for 

 milk production. These mixtiu*es serve as convenient receptacles 

 for excessive amounts of oat hulls, which increase their fiber content 

 and lower their feeding value. . Corn and oat feeds usually sell 

 at about the same price as the wheat by-products, although not 

 equal to them in feeding value. 



Fortified starch}^ feeds are mixtures of cereals 

 Fortified Starchy or cereal by-products, together with a small 

 Feeds. amount of protein concentrates. They are 



Pages 27-28. sold either as stock or horse feeds. When 



free from mould and rancidity and con- 

 taining less than 10 per cent fiber, they are quite suitable for 

 horse feeds, if sold at a reasonable price. On account of their 

 protein deficiency, they cannot be considered as satisfactory for 

 milk production. Hexagon Dairy Feed and June Pasture Feed 

 contained too much fiber to be considered economical for either 

 dairy stock or horses. 



Oat feed is a by-product of the breakfast 

 Oat Feeds. food factories. It consists largely of oat 

 Page 28. hulls, together with more or less oat mid- 



dlings, light oats, sweepings and chaff. It 

 is seldom sold by itself, but is a prominent component of some 

 molasses feeds, corn and oat feeds and fortified starchy feeds, and 

 is occasionally found as an adulterant in provender which is sold 

 for straight corn and oats. 



