FEEDING STUFF INSPECTION. 



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low protein is probably explained bv the fact that the oil was 

 not as completely expressed as usual. On this account the case 

 was not reported to the Secretary of Agriculture. 



In 1897-8 the American Cotton Oil Company's cottonseed 

 meal was one of the best in the State, averaging about 46 per 

 cent of protein. The quality of this output has steadily 

 decreased, and only one of the three lots sampled were up to 

 guarantee: the others carried 41.69 and 42.31 per cent with a 

 guarantee of 43 per cent protein. All of the other samples of 

 cottonseed agreed fairly well with the guarantees. 



The sample of the Sea Island cottonseed meal was from a lot 

 3 years or more old. While in 1896 and 1897 considerable of 

 these low grade cottonseed meals were sold in the State, so far 

 as we can learn, (and we investigate every suspicious case re- 

 ported to us) there is very little now sold. 



Chicago gluten meal changes in composition very greatly 

 from time to time as the following comparisons show : 



Fat. 



% 

 Winter 1S9S ; 15 



Fall 1S98 14 



Winter 1899 14 



Fall 1S99 19 



% 

 38. 38 



40.63 



38.94 



36.31 



% 

 34.00 



36.13 



34.50 



31.56 



% 

 35.64 



38.01 



37.4-2 



33.83 



% 

 4.15 



■2.7'.i 



3.61 



5.30 



% 

 2 48 



1.70 



2.27 



2.91 



% 

 3.37 



2.15 



3.01 



4.27 



These goods are guaranteed 38 per cent protein and 2 per cent 

 fat. The Norton-Chapman Company of Portland are the State 

 agents and all of the goods sold in the State are guaranteed by 

 them. These goods contain substantially less protein than guar- 

 anteed and the dealers have been reported to the Secretary of 

 Agriculture.* 



Five of the 11 samples of the Cream gluten meal fall below 

 the guarantee in protein and the other 6 are but little above. 



* Five samples of Chicago gluten sent to the Station in January by the Stati 



agents were above guarantee. 



