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Not being "the unmixed meal made directly from the entire 

 grain," it is a commercial feeding stuff within the meaning of 

 the law regulating the sale of commercial feeding stuffs in 

 Maine and requires registration and labeling as provided by 

 that law. 



A few of the feeds listed under the heading above are either 

 corn feed meal or compounded feeds composed in part of corn 

 feed meal. The majority of them, however, are feeds com- 

 posed in whole or in part of oatmeal mill or clipped oat by- 

 products. 



Oat Shorts or Oat Middlings is the starchy portion of the 

 oat groats (the kernel of the oat berry with the hulls removed) 

 obtained in the milling of rolled oats. 



Oat Hulls is the outer covering of the oat grain. 



Clipped Oat Refuse is the resultant by-product obtained in 

 the manufacture of clipped oats. It may contain light chaffy 

 material broken from the ends of the hulls, empty hulls, light 

 immature oats and dust. It must not contain an excessive 

 amount of oat hulls. 



While one feed listed in this class, of which more will be 

 said later, is a straight oatmeal mill by-product without any 

 reinforcement, the majority of them are compounded feeds in 

 which other .products of higher feeding value are mixed with 

 the oat by-<products to make the whole more attractive to the 

 stock and the feeder. Their feeding value varies greatly with 

 the kind and amount of other feeds mixed with the oat refuse, 

 and whether they can be profitably fed depends to a considerable 

 extent upon the price for which they are sold. On the whole, 

 it takes a pretty shrewd feeder to buy and feed oat hulls profit- 

 ably. Any user of this class of feeds should give careful con- 

 sideration to their analysis, their selling price, and the results 

 he obtains in feeding them. Some of them would be expensive 

 at almost any price. 



The straight oatmeal refuse before referred to, for instants, 

 is guaranteed to carry 5.25 per cent protein, 2.5 per cent fat, 

 and 28 per cent crude fiber. The samples examined ran very 

 close to those figures. The average of 126 analyses of hay 

 from mixed grasses is exactly the same as this in fat, practically 

 the same in fiber and over 2 per cent higher in protein. It is 

 doubtful if any of the feeders who bought this feed because 

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