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corn meal ground by the suspected firm. They anah'zed as 

 follows : 



Sample No. 10,714 carried 9.38 per cent protein and 2.97 

 per cent fiber; sample Xo. 10.715 carried 9.50 per cent protein 

 and 3.43 per cent fiber. 



If enough corn bran had been added to have made it any 

 object to use it for the purpose of adulteration, the crude fibei 

 would have been much higher and the protein lower than the 

 results of the analyses show. The average of "jj samples of 

 corn meal show it to carry 9.2 per cent protein, and 2 per cent 

 crude fiber. The fiber in the samples drawn at Augusta are 

 somewhat higher than this average, but are no higher than 

 samples of straight corn meal sometimes run. 



In February a dealer in Oxford county wrote as follows : 

 "There is a lot of com meal shipped into this section that I have 

 to compete with from which a part is bolted out and sold as 

 ■'bolted'' or "granulated" meal. The residue that is sold here 

 as "meal" can, of course, be sold cheaper than anyone can who 

 puts in the whole corn into the meal as I do." 



On our request this correspondent sent a sample of his own 

 meal and of the suspected meal. The anal3"ses were made at 

 once and were reported as follows : 



"The t\vo samples of corn meal which you sent us analyzed as 

 follows : 



Suspected meal, Straight meal, 



per cent. per cent. 



Water 15.64 17.25 



Protein 8.36 8.06 



Crude fiber 2.41 2.18 



Put upon the water free basis your meal would carry 9.74 

 per cent protein and the other 9.88 per cent. The fiber in youi 

 meal would be 2.64 per cent and the other 2.85. If these two 

 samples of meal had been submitted to us without an explan- 

 atory letter, I should have written that they were practically 

 alike in composition, but that the suspected one was a trifle the 

 better, because of its lower water content and consequent larger 

 content of dr\- matter." 



In both of these cases there was no chemical evidence that the 

 meals were not straight goods, and they had as high feeding 

 value as the averag-e corn meal. 



