FEEDING STUFF INSPECTION. 65 



Fourex has about the same composition as gluten meal; it is 

 readily eaten by stock and is a safe food for milch cows when 

 fed by itself or in combination with other grain feeds. 



MFAT MFALS AND SCRAPS. 



These were, with one exception, above the guaranteed percent- 

 ages in protein and fat. Evidently many of the manufacturers 

 place the guarantee sufficiently low so there will be no danger of 

 their goods falling below the guarantees. In compounding 

 rations it will be safer to depend upon the analyses here given 

 than upon the guarantees. 



BY-PRODUCTS OF THE OAT. 



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-O Company's goods, are mixtures of such refuse with 

 other by-products of higher protein content. With a few excep- 

 tions they are 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 contain. The intelligent buyer of feeding stuffs, 

 who has his barns well filled with hay, corn fodder and silage, 

 will have very little use for these feeds low in protein content. 



WHEAT BRAN AND MIDDLINGS. — MIXED FEED. 



The results of analyses of samples of wheat ofifals sent to the 

 Station by correspondents and collected by the inspector are 

 given in the table. 



In the fall of 1899 the State was flooded with low grade, 

 adulterated wheat brans and mixed feeds. Because of the pub- 

 licity given to these fraudulent goods and the cooperation of the 

 best of the large dealers, they have quite largely disappeared, or 

 are sold under a proper guarantee. 



There is so much profit in selling ground corn cobs and broom 

 corn at the price of wheat bran that the consumer must ever be 

 on the watch against this fraud. The safest thing is to buy only 

 well known, reliable brands of this class of goods. The bulletin 

 gives the names and analyses of many manufacturers of high 

 class brans, and other wheat offals. If consumers will see to it 



