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MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



SUMMARY OF ANALYSES, FALL 1898— CONCLUDED. 



Kind of Feeding Stuff. 



Protein. 



la 



Fat. 



O ft 



The H-O Co.'s 

 Poultry Feed 



The H-O Co.'s 

 Standard Dairy Feed 



The H-O Co.'s 

 Horse Feed 



E. W. Blatchford's 

 Calf Meal 



Bowker Fertilizer Co.'s 

 Bowker's Animal Meal — 



Bradley Fertilizer Co.'s 

 Superior Meat Meal 



Bradley Fertilizer Co.'s 

 Old Fashioned Beef Scraps 



Highest. 

 Lowest . 

 Average 



Highest. 

 Lowest . 

 Average 



Highest. 

 Lowest . 

 Average 



Highest. 

 Lowest . 

 Average 



18.31 

 17.81 



18.04 



20.94 

 17.06 

 19.46 



11.94 

 11.69 

 11.81 



33.44 



44.94 

 40.50 

 42.51 



43.56 



""ie.so" 





18.75 





12.30 





30.00 



40.00 



40.00 



5.92 

 5.43 

 5.70 



5.42 

 4.24 

 5.02 



4.75 

 3.81 

 4.36 



14.05 

 12,05 

 12.95 



15.95 



19.60 



7.00 



7.25 



.90 



5.00 

 15.00 

 10.00 



The figures of the tables explain themselves and little com- 

 ment is needed. The following brief statements contain, how- 

 ever, some facts not included in the tabular matter, and will 

 help to a better understanding of the workings of the law. 



Cottonseed Meal. 



Pure cottonseed meal is made by grinding the seed after 

 the white down, which remains upon the seed as it comes from 

 the cotton gin, and the hard hulls have been removed. Thus 

 prepared, cottonseed meal carries from 40 to 53 per cent of 

 protein. At first cottonseed meal was all high grade goods. 

 The temptation to adulterate was too strong for unscrupulous 

 manufacturers to withstand and the market was overrun with 

 cottonseed meal adulterated with finely ground hulls. This 

 made a dark colored meal, the color of which was sometimes 

 "improved" by grinding and mixing a bright yellow clay with 

 the meal. Some of th^se meals were known in the trade as 

 "Sea Island" cottonseea meal, and others were sold without 



