110 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I907. 



feeding stuff like the O. M. Feed Regular (Oat feed) with 

 about the same protein content as oat straw, is difficult to under- 

 stand. 



WHEAT BRAN AND MIDDLINGS. 



Anlyses pages 1 01 -103 



The refuses from the milling of wheat vary, as is to be 

 expected, quite largely in composition. A good quality mixed 

 feed or wheat bran should carry 15 per cent protein and 

 as noted in the table some of them ran considerably above that. 

 While the feeding stuffs law of this State does not require 

 straight wheat refuses to be guaranteed many of the manufac- 

 turers are now placing guarantees for both protein and fat upon 

 the various wheat offals. 



There is no class of feeding stuffs in which the consumer 

 needs to use greater care at present than in the purchase of 

 mixed feeds. While the regular brands are all right, as they 

 have been in the past, there are some spurious articles in the 

 market. 



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 

 that all of this class of feeds which they buy carries the name 

 of the miller there will be little likelihood of their being 

 defrauded. In case of any doubt, mail a sample to the Station 

 and an analyses will be made and the results reported promptly 

 and without charge. 



ADULTERATED WHEAT OEEALS. 



Analyses page 103. 



With the exception of the mixed feeds from Kentucky, sold 

 chiefly under the names of Jersey mixed feed and Indiana 

 mixed feed, no adulterated wheat offals have been found upon 

 the market. Most of these goods offered in the State are 

 properly tagged, carrying not only the percentage of protein 

 and fat, but the statement of their composition showing the 



