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quantity of meal that was below prime in quality. Apparently 

 the orders for meal were solicited by out of state dealers, in 

 Maine during the summer of 1906. The offers were made and 

 the orders placed at a low price so that when it came time to 

 deliver the goods, choice cottonseed meal had advanced mate- 

 rially beyond this price. Apparently these Maine orders, in 

 many instances, were filled from inferior goods. Evidently the 

 dealers in Maine were imposed upon,, and the jobbing houses 

 claim that they were also imposed upon and that they were not 

 aware that the meal which they were giving to their Maine 

 customers was of such bad quality. Many of the dealers, as 

 soon as they received the meal, submitted samples to the Station 

 for analysis and wherever the analysis has shown the material 

 to be inferior the dealers have promptly changed the guarantees 

 upon the goods which they had in stock, to correspond with fact. 

 As there was no evidence that there was any intentional fraud 

 on the part of Maine dealers, no prosecutions have been made ; 

 the trouble apparently lying entirely outside of the State. As 

 the market is becoming exhausted of these summer bought 

 goods, cottonseed meal of much better quality is now appearing, 

 samples having been submitted which carry as high as 46 per 

 cent protein. 



The meal bearing the tags of Kaiser & Brown, Memphis, and 

 one lot of Phoenix brand and one dealers sample of Star brand 

 cottonseed meal were particularly bad goods, having about the 

 composition of so-called Sea Island cottonseed meal, and closely 

 resembling cottonseed feed in appearance. The great majority 

 of the cottonseed meals sold in the State during the late fall and 

 early winter seem to run about as prime meal instead of choice 

 as the dealers were expecting. 



COTTONSEED EEED. 



Analyses page 97. 

 Two samples of cottonseed feed were sent to the Station by 

 dealers. These were approximately correctly guaranteed as to 

 their percentages of protein and fat. They are, however, not 

 economical feeds unless they can be bought for half the price 

 of choice cottonseed meal. A ton of choice cottonseed meal 

 carries 820 pounds of total and 680 pounds of digestible protein 

 and while a ton of cottonseed feed carries 440 pounds of total, 

 it has only 340 pounds digestible protein. 



