ilS MAINE AGRICUIvTURAI, EXPERIMENT STATION. I915. 



it was "cheap" would have paid the same price per ton for hay 

 to haul themselves, and thought they were getting a particularly 

 good bargain. 



While a good many brands of feed coming under this heading 

 are registered, those of which any considerable amount is sold 

 in the State are comparatively few.. A number of the brands 

 were not found by inspectors at all during the season. Those 

 that were examined carried rather low protein and fat, and 

 high fiber guarantees, but — with the exception of two "stock, 

 feeds" which make a very bad showing — ^were pretty well in 

 accord with them. 



A number of the molasses feeds, which are listed separately, 

 might well be included in this class. 



MOLASSES FEEDS. 



Feeds containing molasses are grouped together in this report 

 for two reasons : — Because they are usually spoken of and 

 thought of as a separate class of feeds ; and because, while the 

 addition of molasses to any sort of feed would bring it into 

 this class, in practice the molasses feeds are all quite similar 

 in composition. For the most part, they are made up of by- 

 products from the milling of various sorts of grains, — oat 

 hulls, wheat screenings and the like, — reinforced with higher 

 grade feeds sufficient to give the whole a fair to medium feed- 

 ing value, and the molasses is added to make them more palata- 

 ble and attractive to the stock, and so more attractive . to the 

 feeder, than they would be without the sweetening to hide their 

 coarseness. What has just been said about the use of the 

 corn and oat by-product feeds applies equally to the molasses 

 feeds. 



But because the latter vary much more in composition, their 

 feeding value also varies more. For this reason, two divisions 

 of the molasses feeds have been made in the table: — Those 

 carrying les« than 15 per cent protein; and those carrying more. 

 The feeds in the latter division are more comparable to the 

 miscellaneous compounded feeds with over 15 per cent protein 

 than to the corn and oat by-product feeds, For the most part, 

 like all the compounded feeds, the molasses feeds have run 

 pretty well to their guarantees. 



