6o Maine: agricultural lxperim^nt station. 1909. 



14 per cent instead of the 5 per cent. "Indiana Mixed Feed" 

 according to its label is composed of winter wheat bran, winter 

 wheat ship stuff, and corn cob meal. It is guaranteed to carry 

 10 per cent protein instead of 15 per cent in a good bran, and 

 carries 14 per cent of indigestible crude fiber instead of the 9 

 per cent in bran. 



the; we;ight of fe;lding stuffs. 

 Practically all of the feeding stuffs are weighed into packages 

 automatically and run fairly uniform. It is very seldom that 

 the Station hears complaints of short weight. Something over 

 50 lots of the different standard feeding stuffs were weighed 

 by the Station representatives the present season and were found 

 for the most part to be approximately correct as regards net 

 weight. In some cases there is apparently no allowance made 

 for the weight of the sack and a purchaser pays for the sack 

 at the same rate that he pays for the feeding stuffs that it con- 

 tains. In a great majority of cases however a tare of one or 

 two pounds is allowed and the package marked 100 pounds 

 weighs loi or 102 pounds. There is some trouble in connection 

 with cottonseed meal which is probably due not so much to 

 shortage when the goods are put up at the mills as to the fact 

 that they are put into poor sacks and more or less meal sifts 

 out. While in some instances cottonseed meal was found to 

 weigh loi, 102 or even 103 pounds, in other cases it dropped to- 

 95 pounds or less. As a rule, however, the dealers are pretty 

 alert to matters of this kind and report shortages and obtain 

 rebates from the shippers. It is to be hoped that these rebates 

 are passed on to their customers or that the packages are opened 

 and filled. This is a matter which any dealer or user can 

 readily verify for himself and it would be in the line of self 

 interest to occasionally weigh the packages and thus make sure 

 that they are full weight. 



