DESCRIPTION OF FEED STUFFS 



shells and also through green feeds, especially the legumes. 

 Bran gives bulk to the ration, adds considerable food 

 value, and is especially desirable for breeding fowls and 

 for growing chickens. 



Red dog flour, also called red dog middlings, contains 

 the germs of wheat and is a dark colored feeding flour 

 with about the some composition and value as the best 

 flour middlings. Wheat middlings vary greatly in quality 

 from the red dog flour which contains considerable fine 

 flour, to shorts which contain very little flour. Standard 

 or brown middlings are made up of fine particles of bran 

 to which considerable flour is attached. White or flour 

 middlings are a better grade of middlings containing 

 more low grade flour and being of somewhat higher food 

 value than the standard or brown middlings. Shorts often 

 consist of a poorer middlings than the grade referred to 

 as standard middlings, being made of reground bran and 

 sweepings. This term is also sometimes used interchange- 

 ably with standard or bran middlings. Wheat mixed 

 feed or ship-stuff refers strictly to the entire run of the 

 mill from wheat flour, but is often used to refer to mix- 

 tures of bran and middlings in various proportions. Its 

 comparative value depends largely on the amount of flour 

 which it contains. 



A large amount of wheat screenings are produced at 

 the* mills, consisting of broken and shrunken wheat mixed 

 with weed seeds. This wheat has good food value and 

 some of the weed seeds are also of value, while other seeds 

 have little value. All very hard small weed seeds are ob- 



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