FEEDING STUFF INSPECTION. IOJ 



LINSEED MEAL. 



Analyses pages 97 and 98. 



Linseed meal is made by grinding flax seed from which the 

 oil has been more or less completely removed. Most of the oil 

 meal now on the market is new process meal in which the fat 

 is removed by the use of naphtha. New process linseed meal 

 is generally somewhat lower in fat and higher in protein than 

 old process. The amount of linseed oil meal found in the 

 market in Maine has considerably increased. This is probably 

 due to the poor quality of the cottonseed meal. Linseed oil 

 meal is a safer and in some respects a better feed than cotton- 

 seed meal. The small amount available and its formerly higher 

 price, led to its lessened use. It will be noted that the goods 

 run quite nearly in accordance with the guarantees. 



GLUTEN MEALS AND FEEDS. 



Analyses page 98. 



Gluten meals and feeds are the by-products left in the manu- 

 facture of starch and glucose from Indian corn. Corn consists 

 largely of starch. The waste product in the manufacture of 

 . starch and sugar is relatively richer in oil and protein than is 

 corn. Most factories remove part of the corn oil from the waste 

 so that nearly all the gluten meals carry less oil than they did 

 a few years ago. 



Gluten feeds differ from gluten meals in that they contain 

 considerably more of the corn bran and hence relatively less 

 protein, fat and digestible carbohydrates, and more of the indi- 

 gestible woody fiber. Gluten products which were formerly 

 quite extensively used in Maine, came to be regarded as rather 

 unsatisfactory forms of concentrated feeds, chiefly because of 

 their uneven composition. 



The gluten products are desirable sources of protein and now 

 that the manufacturers are placing guarantees upon their goods, 

 much more nearly corresponding to fact, this class of feeding 

 stuffs may become again as popular as they were a few years 

 ago. There is apparently much more of the Buffalo gluten feed 

 used in Maine than other makes and it will be noted that this 

 runs pretty even in composition and for the most part well up 



