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bran as well as the inner or "bee-wing" bran separated from 

 the wheat bran and white middlings. 



White Middlings or Flour Middlings is that part of the offal 

 of wheat intermediate between standard middlings and red dog. 



Red Dog is a low grade wheat flour containing the finer 

 particles of bran. 



Mixed Feed is a mixture of the by-products from the milling 

 of the wheat berry. 



Screenings is the smaller imperfect grains, weed seeds and 

 other foreign materials, having feeding value, separated in 

 cleaning the grains. 



With the large number of brands of wheat feeds that are 

 examined a considerable variation in the findings is to be ex- 

 pected. The goods of most mills have carried reasonable guar- 

 antees and run very closely in accord with them. A few ship- 

 pers have put abnormally high (in the case of fiber, low) 

 guarantees on their products and the goods have been found 

 deficient. It will be noted that a number of these manufactur- 

 ers have changed their guarantees on their 19 15 goods and 

 come down to a reasonable figure. A few brands carrying 

 guarantees that wheat feeds of their class should reasonably be 

 expected to come up to have been found deficient, but they are 

 the exception. On the whole the situation in wheat feeds is very 

 satisfactory. 



ADULTERATED WHEAT I^EEDS. 



A few feeds composed of wheat feeds plus foreign matter — 

 usually ground corn cobs — are still sold in Maine. No one need 

 buy them unwittingly as their composition is plainly indicated 

 on the label. To judge by the amount of them found by in- 

 spectors, however, their use in the State is decreasing every 

 year. Feeders who have previously used them because they were 

 "cheaper" than straight wheat feeds are apparently waking up 

 to the fact that ground corn cobs are an expensive feed at 

 almost any price. These feeds are usually sold by dealers at 

 only a slight reduction from the price of pure wheat feeds. 

 I'hat the dealers who carry them are aware that they are 

 poor value for the money is evidenced by the fact that they 

 nearly always apologize to the ins<pectors for having such goods 

 on hand, saying that they "have to carry them because some of 



