FEEDING STUFF INSPECTION. 



Samples of the feeding stuffs coming under the inspection law 

 were drawn by the inspectors in November, 1898. The results 

 of the chemical analyses follow. A discussion of the results of 

 some of the analyses will be found on pages 18 to 21. 



The law is working very satisfactorily indeed. There are 

 practically no goods sold which are not properly guaranteed. 

 That the law is keeping out low grade goods is evidenced by the 

 following from a letter received a few weeks since : "You will 

 please print tags as ordered for x x x x x Mill and send same 

 by freight instead of express. We have discovered that the 

 meal we anticipated shipping into Maine market was not of 

 sufficient quality to meet requirements of your State. We have, 

 therefore, concluded not to ship as anticipated. We will, later 

 in the season, have a very nice grade of meal at x x x x Mill at 

 which time we will place same in Maine market." 



FEEDS LOW IN PROTEIN. 



Very few farmers can afford to buy feeds low in protein 

 and high in carbohydrates at any price at which they have been 

 or are likely to be offered. The farmer should grow all the 

 coarse feeds that he needs. Oat and similar feeds are very 

 much like corn stalks or oat straw in composition. Some of the 

 feeds have cottonseed or other nitrogenous feeding stuffs added 

 to them so that they carry more protein than straight oat feeds, 

 but these mixtures are always more expensive sources of pro- 

 tein than are the glutens, cottonseed and linseed meals. One 

 hundred pounds of an ordinary oat feed has from eight to eleven 

 pounds protein. At seventy-five cents per hundred the protein 

 costs from seven to nine cents a pound. One hundred pounds 

 of a good gluten meal has from thirty-four to forty per cent of 

 protein. At $1.10 per hundred the protein costs about three 

 cents a pound and it not only costs less than half as much but 

 it is better digested. As a source of protein, it would be as 

 good economy to pay $60.00 a ton for high grade cottonseed 

 meal as to pay $15.00 a ton for the ordinary oat feed. 

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