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Cottonseed Feed. 



Analyses page 165. 

 A few lots of cottonseed feed have been found in the State. 

 For the most part these were reasonably in accord with the guar- 

 anty of 22 per cent protein and 5 per cent fat. The differences 

 in price between choice cottonseed meal and these low grade 

 cottonseed feeds have been slight. They are not economical 

 feeds at any price which they have been or are likely to be 

 offered. A ton of choice cottonseed meal carrying 41 per cent 

 protein carries 680 pounds of digestible protein. A ton of cotton- 

 seed feed with an analysis of 22 per cent protein would only have 

 340 pounds of digestible protein; in other words as a source 

 of protein, one pound of choice cottonseed meal is equal to two 

 pounds of cottonseed feed. 



Linseed Meal. 

 Analyses page 165. 

 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 from which the 

 fat has been removed by the use of naphtha. New process lin- 

 seed meal is generally somewhat lower in fat and higher in pro- 

 tein than old process. The amount of linseed oil meal found in 

 the market in Maine has considerably increased. This is prob- 

 ably due to the advance of price of the cottonseed meal which 

 was relatively greater than that of linseed. Linseed oil meal is- 

 a safer and in some respects a better feed than cottonseed meal.. 

 The small amount available and its formerly higher price, led 

 to its lessened use. Apparently considerably more of the meal 

 was used in Maine in 1907-8 than for many preceding years. 



Gluten Meals and Feeds. 

 Analyses page 166. 

 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 



