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their customers demand them." Proba'bly the fact that the 

 margin of profit is greater than in the case of pure wheat 

 feeds has something to do with it also. Three brands of goods 

 of this class were registered this season. Sterling Feed was 

 found at perhaps a dozen stores ; Bluegrass Feed at only two ; 

 liO Holstein Feed was found. The samples examined were not 

 all in accord with even the low protein and high fiber gUr.r- 

 antees that they carried. 



CORN AND OATS GROUND TOGETHER. 



Corn and Oats ground together are what their name indi- 

 cates and require no definition. Some of the feeds listed under 

 this heading are called "chop" or "chop feeds" by the makers'. 

 A chop feed may contain by-products as well as the straight 

 grains, but only those are listed in this class which claim to be 

 pure corn and oat feeds. Chop feeds containing oat hulls or 

 other by-products are listed with the feeds utilizing those by- 

 products. 



A few of the feeds of this class are shipped into Maine by 

 manufacturers in other states, but, as the list in the tables 

 shows, most of them are the product of local grist mills. The 

 only sample found low in protein carried a guaranty of 1 1 

 per cent, too high a figure for this class of feeds. The makers 

 of this brand have changed their guaranty and now claim only 

 10 per cent, .protein, the guaranty on the majority of the feeds 

 of this class. 



Most of the brands of corn and oat feeds carry a fiber 

 garanty of 5 per cent or higher. One sample with a guaranty 

 of 4 per cent fiber ran considerably over that figure, which is 

 too low for this class of feeds. While some samples with a 

 guaranty lower than 5 per cent in fiber were in accord with 

 guaranty and the only sample with a 5 per cent guaranty that 

 overran that amount was one which, as noted in the table, may 

 not have fairly represented the goods, 6 per cent is a safer fiber 

 guaranty for feeds of this class. Only the two samples men- 

 tioned over-ran their fiber guarantees. 



The fat guarantees on most of the corn and oat feeds ex- 

 amined appear too high. The majority of them are guaran- 

 teed to carry 5 per cent fat, some claim only 4 per cent, and 



