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in a fresh condition carries approximately 90 per cent, of water and can 

 scarcely be a profitable feed at any great distance from the factories, owing 

 to the great cost of transporting so much useless material. This pulp is 

 inferior to the same weight of beets before extracting the sugar, and does not 

 differ essentially in its general character from roots and other succulent 

 carbohydrate feeding stuffs. It appears that this sugar beet pulp is now 

 offered in a dried condition, and if the price is sufficiently low it may 

 doubtless be purchased to advantage by those farmers who have an insuffi- 

 cient supply of coarse foods. The only ingredient of value in beet sugar 

 molasses is the sugar which has not crystallized. This molasses contains 

 from 50 to 60 per cent, of sugar, and may be combined advantageously 

 with coarse fodders and nitrogenous feeding stuffs in making up a ration 

 for various classes of animals. 



8. HOMINY WASTES. In the manufacture of hominy quite a portion 

 of the maize kernel is rejected, and is known in the market as hominy feed. 

 The composition of this by-product is not essentially unlike that of the whole 

 maize kernel, and it is very nearly equal to corn meal in feeding value. At 

 the present time the price of this feeding stuff as compared with corn meal 

 is such that it may be purchased with advantage. 



The above is a brief reference to the principal feeding stuffs found in 

 the markets. A determination of the ones which a farmer can most ad- 

 vantageously purchase depends upon the ruling prices. There are no hard 

 and fast relative values which can be applied to a determination of the 

 materials which it is wisest to purchase. It is possible to base a rational 

 decision upon a comparison of the proportions of digestible material in 

 feeding stuffs of the same class. This does not apply, however, when com- 

 paring feeding stuffs of unlike classes. To illustrate, it would not be possible 

 to compare the value of corn meal and cottonseed meal on the basis of the 

 proportions of digestible matter in the two materials, because the digestible 

 matter in the one is so greatly unlike that in the other. 



MIXTURES AND ADULTERATIONS. 



No more important topic in connection with this general subject can 

 be brought to your attention than the present quite prevalent practice of 

 compounding mixed feeds which contain an inferior ingredient, and of adul- 

 terating many of the valuable feeding stuffs which now appear in the markets. 

 Let us consider some of the facts which are well known to those who are 

 investigating the feeding stuffs trade. 



Let me say, first of all, that I have known of very few instances of the 

 adulteration of linseed meal. Up to the present time no feeding stuff has 

 been more uniform in its quality than has this one. Inferior cottonseed 

 meals appear in the market quite frequently, however. Here the degrada- 

 tion of quality is accomplished by grinding hulls with the pure meal. Some 

 so-called cottonseed meals have been found on sale carrying less than 30 

 per cent, of protein, whereas the proportion should be above 42 per cent a 



