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Brewers'' grains. But three samples of dried brewers' grains were 

 collected. This feed stuff is extensively used abroad, and much that 

 is produced in this country is exported. It is also used as a com- 

 ponent of many molasses feeds. In feeding value brewers' grains 

 are somewhat superior to wheat bran, and they can be used satis- 

 factorily as a partial substitute for oats in feeding horses (by weight 

 y^ oats and Y^ brewers' grains, or ^/^ corn, Yi oats and J^ brew- 

 ers' grains). The samples examined were of good quality and main- 

 tained their guarantees. 



Flour jniddliiigs. While a guarantee is not re- 

 Wheat quired on wheat by-products in Massachusetts, 



By- Products. many of them bear guarantees in order to conform 



Pages 13-22. to feed laws in other states. The guaranteed 

 brands averaged 17.32 per cent of protein, while 

 those unguaranteed averaged 15.05 percent. Moral: It pays to 

 buy guaranteed goods. 



Flour middlings form an excellent source of digestible carbo- 

 hydrates (starchy matter), as well as protein, and serve admirably to 

 supplement the home grown supply of corn and as a component of 

 most grain mixtures intended for dairy stock. 



Standard middlings. The standard middlings were, as a whole, 

 of good quality. Some samples, however, contained so many screen- 

 ings as to give a decidedly bitter taste to the feed. 



The United States Department of Agriculture, in its " Pure Food 

 Decision 9,0," makes the following statement in regard to wheat bran 

 which may apply with equal force to all wheat by-products : 



" The Department has frequently received inquiries in regard to 

 the labeling of bran, of which the following is a fair sample : 



' Can the screenings of wheat, consisting principally of shrunken 

 seed, etc., be put in the bran and it still be called bran, etc' 



Since the above is clearly in violation of those provisions of the 

 law requiring that a food product be true to label, the Department 

 is of the opinion that it will be necessary to label such a mixture as 

 ' Bran and Screenings.' " 



Ballard & Ballard's " Ship Stuff " bore the statement " Ground 

 Screenings Included." The sample examined, however, was fully as 

 good as some samples which gave no indication of their true content. 



One sample of the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co.'s brown 

 middlings collected in the spring and two samples collected during 

 the fall contained a marked amount of ground weed seed. 



