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Fodder and Fodder Analyses. 



410. CORN REFUSE FROM STARCH FACTORY. 



Sent ou from New Bedford, Mass. 



100.00 

 The above named material, which furnished the sample sent ou for 

 an examination, had been bought of a corn starch factory at Long 

 Island, N. Y., for feeding cattle. Forty tons had been landed at 

 New Bedford, at $8.00 per ton, of forty bushels. Some doubts had 

 been expressed in regard to its fitness as a feed for milch cows. 



The sample we received, was apparently in a fair state of preser- 

 vation, and consisted mainly of a soft yellowish white mass, inter- 

 spersed with coarse fragments of the skin of the corn. The entire 

 mass in an air dried state was quite soft and friable, and of a pecul- 

 iar vegetable, yet not offensive odor. 



The composition of the vegetable matter contained in the article, 

 IS that of a valuable ingredient for the compounding of a suitable 

 diet for various kinds of farm live stock, and in some respects, similar 

 to that of the refuse grain from breweries. The main objectionable 

 feature of the fresh factory refuse consists in the presence of a large 

 amount of moisture, and its liability to suffer a rapid and serious 



