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The alfalfa meals collected varied widely 

 Alfalfa in composition. It has been claimed that 



Meals. there is enough difference in the freight 



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car lots to enable the western alfalfa ship- 

 per to put ground alfalfa into the eastern market as cheaply as 

 the baled article. There is, however, in the purchase of baled 

 alfalfa, the advantage of being able to tell something about the 

 character of the article. It is believed that inferior and late cut 

 ah'alfa is often ground and sold as alfalfa meal. 



SOME LOW GRADE PRODUCTS USED IN STOCK FEEDS. 



The following products are used to a greater or less extent in 

 some of the prepared stock feeds found in the Massachusetts 

 markets; they are also occasionally found as adulterants of high 

 grade feeding stuffs : 



Cottonseed Hulls. Cottonseed hulls consist of the hull or 

 hard outer coating of the cotton seed together with adhering 

 lint left after the removal of the kernel preparatory to the ex- 

 traction of the cottonseed oil. They find their way into the 

 northern market as a component of cottonseed feed and frequent- 

 ly in ground form as an adulterant of high grade cottonseed meal. 

 Cottonseed meal of good qualit}" contains a small proportion of 

 hulls, it not being practical to separate all of the hulls from the 

 seed kernels before the oil is extracted. In general, however, the 

 proportion of hulls has a considerable bearing on the protein con- 

 tent of the meal. 



Cottonseed hulls have long been known as a favorable feed 

 in the South where they are used as roughage. The few attempts 

 made to introduce them into the New England markets have not, 

 however, met with success. Some years ago a feeding experiment 

 with milch cows was attempted with the hulls at the experiment 

 station and it was only with difficulty that the animals could be 

 induced to eat them. When mixed with more or less cottonseed 

 meal their palatability is increased. 



