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scarce. Gluten meal, which for years-.had been a standard con- 

 centrated feed for many farmers, was no longer to be obtained. 

 The new crop cottonseed meal was not ready to go forward and 

 the market was quite bare of old meal. As a result, handlers of 

 cottonseed meal were forced to purchase outside of the regular 

 channels. In November and December samples running as low 

 as 21 per cent of protein were received from correspondents in 

 different parts of the State. These samples were very dark in 

 color, and rather poorly ground and the black particles of hull 

 were very conspicuous. These goods were all traced back to the 

 Oscar Holway Company of Auburn. Some of the goods were 

 sold without any guarantee, others bore the tags of mills and 

 shippers whose goods have, with these exceptions, ranked high. 

 The matter was taken up with the shippers whose tags the goods 

 bore, and they investigated and gave evidence satisfactory to us 

 that the goods were not put out by them, but that the tags were 

 attached by some one who had no right to do so. The explana- 

 tions of the jobbing house were not satisfactory on this point. 

 Two of the retailers state that when they objected to the dark 

 color of the meal that the representative (traveling salesman) 

 of the jobbers said that while it was dark in color it had been 

 analyzed at the Experiment Station and found to be all right. 

 As a matter of fact not a single sample of cottonseed meal was 

 received at the Station from a wholesale dealer during September, 

 October or November, 1902. 



In February, 1903, a sample of cottonseed meal was sent to us 

 from a Foxcroft dealer, which was found to carry only 15.63 per 

 cent of protein and 5.03 per cent of fat. Ten days later a second 

 sample was received from another dealer in the same town, which 

 carried 15.38 per cent of protein, and a few days later still 

 another sample was received from Foxcroft, which carried 17.06 

 per cent protein. These goods were all from the same car which 

 was sold to the Foxcroft dealer by the Doten Grain Company. 

 Later the Doten Grain Company sent to the Station 25 samples 

 taken from as many sacks. These samples ran from 15 to 17 

 per cent of protein. A sample was sent to the Connecticut 

 Experiment Station for expert examination under the microscope. 

 Mr. Winton found no foreign adulteration except hulls. He 

 believes it to be a very poor quality of Sea Island cottonseed meal 



