FEEDING STUFF INSPECTION. Ill 



materials that have been added to the wheat bran. In only one 

 instance, and that is now being investigated, has there appar- 

 ently been fraud in the offering of these adulterated feeds. 

 Their sale is perfectly proper under the law when they are 

 correctly labeled. There is, however, practically no feeding 

 value in corn cobs and as these adulterated wheat offals are 

 sold for only one dollar or so per ton below the price of a 

 straight wheat bran, they are expensive feeds. 



BEEF SCRAPS. 



Analyses page 103. 

 Ground beef scraps are used chiefly for feeding poultry and 

 while they are more or less generally distributed, the sales are 

 small as compared with other materials coming under the feed- 

 ing stuffs law. In some instances, at any rate, the guarantee as 

 placed upon the goods is only a very general guide to the actual 

 composition. 



The Kind of Concentrated Feeding Stuffs to Purchase. 



The crops grown upon the farm are rich in carbohydrates and 

 poor in protein. Clover will help supply the needed protein, and 

 home grown grains will help out toward a balanced ration. But 

 after growing all the food that can be produced economically on 

 the farm, the dairyman will usually find that he needs to supple- 

 ment the home grown food by the purchase of concentrated 

 commercial feeding stuffs. 



As the farm produces or can be made to produce all the starch, 

 sugar and fiber that are needed, it is not necessary to take these 

 constituents into account in the purchase of supplementary food 

 materials. While they have a part, and a necessary part, in the 

 ration, it is protein that is needed to supplement the home grown 

 foods, hence the cost per pound of the protein in a given feeding 

 stuff is of more importance than the ton price. A ton of cotton- 

 seed meal costs more than a ton of oat feed, but the protein in tTie 

 former costs less than 4 cents a pound and 10 or more in the 

 other. The table on the following page shows the number of 

 pounds of protein that a ton of a few average feeding stuffs 

 carries, and the cost of a pound of protein at the usual range 

 in selling price. 



