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known as the new process linseed meal. Flax meal is the particu- 

 lar name of new process meal put out by a single firm. Linseed 

 meal is a very valuable and safe feed. The brand or brands highest 

 in protein and lowest in fat are to be preferred. Linseed meals 

 are generally known as oil meal. This is an incorrect name, the 

 oil in many cases being very thoroughly removed. 



Pea and bean meals are high in protein and fat. Peanut meal 

 is very high in protein. They are all valuable feed stuffs, and 

 quite generally used in European countries. 



Table IIL 

 Average Composition. 



[Figures equal percentages or pounds per hundred.] 



Prime colton-seed raeal, 

 Poor quality cotton-seed meal, 

 New procees linseed meal, . 



Flax meal 



Old profess linseed meal, . 

 Peanut meal, 



65. a 

 41.6 

 71.8 

 71.3 



68. 4 

 70.4 



Gluten Products. 



The various products known as gluten meals, gluten feeds, germ 

 feed and the like, are the residues resulting from the manufacture 

 of starch and glucose (grape sugar) from maize or Indian corn. 



The average of a large number of analyses of water-free Indian 

 corn shows it to have the following composition : — 



Crude ash, 1.7 per cent. 



Crude fiber, 2.5 per cent. 



Crude fat 5.4 per cent. 



Crude protein 11.5 per cent. 



Extract matter (chiefly starch), 78.9 per cent. 



It is quite evident that the coru is made up chiefly of starchy 

 matters. The removal of the larger part of the starch naturally 

 increases the proportion of the other ingredients. The constituent 

 contained in the corn next in amount to starch is the protein, — a 

 general name for all albuminoids. In case of the corn it is called 

 gluten, and after the removal of the starch, this being by far the 

 most prominent constituent remaining, the feeds have been termed 

 gluten feeds. Even in the best methods of manufacture, the starch 

 is not all removed, the residues being often made up of one-half 

 of starchy matter. 



* Number not known. 



