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While the cottonseed meal sold in the State has for the most 

 part been of good quality, the number of samples that have run 

 above 43 per cent have been less than they were a few years ago. 

 The Star brand cottonseed meal of the Sledge & Wells Com- 

 pany, that a year ago was running poor, has this season been as 

 high in protein content as most other brands. While half of 

 the samples of this brand carried a trifle over 43 per cent pro- 

 tein, a guarantee of 41 per cent would have placed their goods 

 above criticism so far as protein content is concerned. The 

 Dixie brand of Humphreys, Goodwin and Co., the Eagle brand 

 of W. A. Kaiser and Co., the Green Diamond brand of Chapin 

 & Co., the Horse Shoe brand of Hugh Petette and Co., the 

 Magnolia brand of Chas. M. Cox and Co., two of the three 

 samples of the Old Gold brand of T. H. Bunch, the Phoenix 

 brand, D. L. Marshall, agent, and Southern Beauty brand of 

 J. G. Falls & Co., and the prime cottonseed meal of A. R. 

 Hopkins and Co., and Hunter Bros. Milling Co., were below 43 

 per cent in protein. All these brands would better be guaran- 

 teed 41 per cent protein and 8 per cent fat. 



One sample of low grade cottonseed meal. Sunny South brand 

 of Sledge and Wells, was found in the hands of a small retailer. 

 Ihis carried 22.56 per cent protein and 5.90 per cent fat with a 

 guarantee of 25 per cent protein and 6 per cent fat. 



GLUTEN MEALS AND FEEDS (ANALYSES PAGE 56.) 



Gluten meals and gluten feeds are by-products left in the 

 manufacture of starch and glucose from Indian corn. Gluten 

 feeds diflFer from gluten meals in that they contain a good deal 

 of the corn bran, and hence relatively less of protein, fat and 

 digestible carbo-hydrates, and more of the indigestible woody 

 fiber. 



Gluten products continue to be the most unsatisfactory of any 

 concentrated feeds on the market. This is partly because dif- 

 ferent lots of the same brand vary somewhat in composition, 

 but is chiefly because certain companies persist in putting a 

 guarantee upon their goods that the goods do not come up to in 

 any instance. This trouble is general throughout the New Eng- 

 land States. The Glucose Sugar Refining Company is perhaps 

 the worst offender, but the Continental Cereal Company, the 



