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less than two-thirds the value of good gluten meal. Only one 

 sample of Sucrene oil meal was found. It carried more of pro- 

 tein and fat than called for by the guarantees. In composition 

 it resembles a good gluten feed. 



OAT FEEDS. CORN CHOPS. 



The various oat feeds, corn chops and corn and oat feeds are 

 still used in the State to a large extent. Some of these are the 

 straight refuse from the manufacture of oat meal and others like 

 the H-0 Company's goods are mixtures of such refuse with 

 other by-products of higher protein content. They are all well 

 up to their respective guarantees and no fault can be found with 

 the manufacturers for their desire to sell these goods, as they 

 are making no claims for nutrients which the goods do not con- 

 tain. The intelligent buyer of feeding stuffs, who has his barns 

 well filled with hay. corn fodder and silage, w r ill have very little 

 use for these feeds low in protein content. 



The value of by-products of the oat as cattle foods has been 

 discussed in bulletin 70 of this Station. 



ADULTERATED BRANS. MIXED FEEDS. 



Bulletin 63 published in April, 1900, contained the following: 

 "In the fall of 1899 the Station began to receive from corre- 

 spondents samples of goods that were bought for bran, but were 

 of very low grade, carrying from 9 to 12 per cent protein, instead: 

 of the 15 to 17 per cent that good bran ought to carry. Investi- 

 gation brought out the fact that certain mills in Kentucky and 

 Tennessee and perhaps in other sections as well were adulterat- 

 ing bran by grinding and mixing with it such materials as corn 

 cobs, the waste from corn broom factories and the like." 



These goods are still being sold in the State (one concern 

 having bought tax tags for 1,500 tons since March, 1900), but 

 they are sold under the law and the purchaser knows from the 

 guarantee what the goods are. These so-called mixed feeds 

 carry more protein and fat than the guarantees call for. If the 

 users of these foods are not getting a fair value for their money, 

 they alone are at fault. The law is doing in this instance exactly 

 what it was intended to do. It does not prohibit the sale of such 

 goods but makes it so that they must be offered on their merits. 



