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in protein. An oat feed with 6 per cent protein is a little better 

 feed and is somewhat better digested than oat straw with the 

 same protein content. It is finely ground and saves some work 

 in mastication for the animal that eats it. This class of goods 

 carries from 12 to 17 per cent of indigestible woody fiber. 



Gee's extra fancy sharps middlings are made from wheat 

 refuses and the weed seeds removed in cleaning wheat before 

 milling. They are not sold at such prices as to invite their use. 

 in preference to the materials they more or less resemble in 

 protein content. The sample of Joko poultry food was sent foi 

 analysis by the maker ; at that time it was not on the market, 



Protena Dairy feed, made by the Purina Mills, is a new feed- 

 ing stuff introduced late in the winter. Norton-Chapman 

 Company of Portland are the State agents. They use as a basis 

 in its manufacture, alfalfa meal "specially milled from the leaves 

 and upper tendrils of the plants ; with this we combine natural 

 grains and concentrated feeds in such proportion as to give us a 

 ration analyzing about as follows: 20.0 per cent protein, 3.5 

 per cent fat, 50.0 per cent carbohydrates." 



The sample sent to us by the State agent analyzed as follows : 



Water 6. 85 per cent. 



Ash 7.59 



Protein 20 . 38 



Crude fiber 18.87 



Nitrogen-free extract 42.46 



Fat 3-85 



The Station arranged to make a feeding test with these goods, 

 but was unable to do so the present season because of their fail- 

 ure to arrive in Bangor until so late in the year that it was 

 feared that climatic causes would tend to make the results of a 

 feeding trial uncertain. 



Two samples of a "stock food" (not a condimental food) to 

 be offered in the State were submitted by a jobbing house for 

 examination. They analyzed as follows : 



Sample 10774 Sample 10785 



Protein 7-63 7 • 3 1 



Fat 3.97 



Crude fiber 9 • 90 9 . 60 



Nitrogen-free extract 3-85 " 



