62 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I905. 



Illinois Sugar Refining Company, and the Warner Sugar Refin- 

 ing Co., are also makers of brands whose guarantees must be 

 discounted. 



The single sample examined of the Globe gluten feed of the 

 Xew York Glucose Company, and t^vo of the samples of the 

 Jinks gluten feed of the Huron Milling Co., were up to their 

 guarantee of 27 per cent protein. Twent\^-five per cent protein 

 and 3 per cent fat is about all that a gluten feed can be counted 

 upon as carrying. 



Five samples of gluten meal and three samples of gluten feed 

 from one car shipped by the Huron Milling Company were 

 received from the state agents. The goods were exceedingly 

 variable, the meal carrying from about 34 to 46 per cent protein, 

 and the feed from about 24 to 29 per cent protein. It was said 

 in explanation that the company were experimenting with new 

 machinery and methods of separation. One sample of Jinks 

 gluten feed made by the same company sent in by a corres- 

 pondent ran exceptionally low in protein. As two samples 

 collected by the Station representative were well up in protein 

 content, it would seem there must be some explanation, such 

 as fault}' sampling, to account for this abnormal specimen. 



LINSEED MEAL (ANALYSES PAGES 56 AND 57.) 



Linseed meal is made by grinding flax seed from which the 

 oil has been more or less completely removed. "Old process" 

 meal is made from oil cake, from which as much as possible of 

 the oil has been removed by pressure. In the "new process" the 

 oil is extracted by the use of naphtha. Old process meal carries 

 more fat and less protein than new process. Because of the 

 method of manufacture, ncAV process meal is somewhat more 

 uniform in composition. Most of the oil meal was up to its 

 guarantee in protein. Xo evidence of any adulteration of this 

 class of feeds was found. Because of the relatively lower price, 

 linseed meal is coming into quite general use again. 



VISCID OIL MEAL (ANALYSES PAGE 57.) 



Oil meal is quite a common trade name for old process linseed 

 meal, and for this reason the use of the term as part of the name 

 of a product made from other materials is to be deprecated. 



