DEFINITIONS OF FEEDINGSTUFFS 



ALFALFA PRODUCTS 



1. Chopped Alfalfa is the entire alfalfa hay, chopped and not ground 

 finely enough to become a meal. It must not contain an admixture of alfalfa 

 straw or other foreign material. (Adopted prior to 1928). 



Galley 4. 



2. Alfalfa Meal is the product obtained from the grinding of the entire 

 alfalfa hay, without the addition of any alfalfa stems, alfalfa straw or foreign 

 material, or the abstraction of leaves. It must be reasonably free from other 

 crop plants and weeds, and must not contain more than 33 per cent of crude 

 fibre. (Adopted 1928). 



3. Alfalfa Leaf Meal is the ground product consisting chiefly of leafy 

 materials separated from alfalfa hay. It must be reasonably free from other 

 crop plants and weeds and must not contain more than 18 per cent of crude 

 fibre. (Adopted 1928). 



4. Alfalfa Stem Meal is the ground product remaining after the separation 

 of the leafy material from alfalfa hay or meal. It must be reasonably free from 

 other crop plants and weeds. (Adopted 1928). 



ANIMAL PRODUCTS 



5. Blood Meal is ground, dried blood. (Adopted 1926), 



6. Blood Flour is dried blood, prepared by special processes and reduced 

 to a fine powder. (Adopted prior to 1928). 



7. Digester Tankage, Meat Meal Tankage or Feeding Tankage is the 



residue from animal tissues exclusive of hoof, horn, manure and stomach con- 

 tents, except in such traces as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice, 

 especially prepared for feeding purposes by tanking under live steam or by dry 

 rendering or a mixture of the products made suitable by drying and grinding. 

 It must not contain more than 4.37 per cent of phosphorus (P). If it bears 

 a name descriptive of its kind, composition or origin, the material must corre- 

 spond thereto. (Adopted 1928— Amended 1933, 1936). 



8. Digester Tankage with Bone, Meat and Bone Meal Digester Tankage, 

 Meat and Bone Meal Tankage, or Feeding Tankage with Bone is the residue 

 from animal tissues exclusive of hoof, horn, manure and stomach contents, ex- 

 cept in such traces as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice, espec- 

 ially prepared for feeding purposes by tanking under live steam or by dry render- 

 ing or a mixture of the products made suitable by drying and grinding, and con- 

 taining more than 4.37 per cent of phosphorus (P). If it bears a name descrip- 

 tive'of its kind, composition or origin, it must correspond thereto. (Adopted 

 1928— Amended 1933, 1936). 



9. Meat Scraps is the ground, dry-rendered residue from animal tissues 

 exclusive of hoof, horn, manure and stomach contents, except in such traces 

 as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice. When this product con- 

 tains more than 4.37 per cent of phosphorus (P), it shall be designated Meat 

 and Bone Scrap. If it bears a name descriptive of its kind, composition or 

 origin it must correspond thereto. (Adopted 1928 — Amended 1936). 



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