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Table XI. 



Showing Approximate Pounds and Value of Nitrogen, Phosphoric 

 Acid and Potash in One Ton; also Comparative Fertilizing 

 Value, 1 being poorest. 



Division I. 



It 

 O 



Cotton-seed meal, 



Linseed meals, 



Chicago, cream and King gluten meals, 

 Iowa and Hammond glutens, 

 Gluten and maize feeds. 



Atlas meal, 



Dry brewers' grain, .... 



Wheat bran 



Malt sprouts 



3.7 

 3.0 

 2.7 

 2.0 

 1.7 

 2.2 

 2.0 

 1.7 

 2.3 



Division II. 



Grains, hominy, cerealine and oat-feeds. 



$5.50 



The above table shows that cotton, linseed and gluten meals 

 possess the highest fertilizing value, and that they contain from 2 

 to 3.7 times as much value in fertility as do the grains and allied 

 products. Such feeds, therefore, when fed to animals, produce a 

 rich manure. 



The concentrated feeds, being easy to handle, can be applied 

 directly to the land, and as good results obtained as from various 

 forms of commercial fertilizing material of a similar nature. 

 When the concentrated feeds are first fed to farm animals, from 

 80 to 90 per cent of the fertilizing value of the feeds reappears in 

 the manure, providing the latter is carefully preserved. The same 

 amount of plant food as it exists in animal excrement, is by no 

 means as valuable from a commercial standpoint, as a like amount 

 in the form of concentrated feed, for the very reason that it costs 

 so much more to handle it. It is as a rule, nevertheless, consid- 

 ered better economy in a system of mixed farming, to first secure 

 the feeding effects of the feeds, and then their fertilizing value in 

 the manure. 



V. IS THERE NEED OF A LAW TO CONTROL THE SALE 

 OF CONCENTRATED FEED STUFFS? 



I think this question can be answered very decidedly in the 

 aflflrmative, and I desire to state the reasons why. 



