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-guarantee for protein is one per cent higher. In this year's 

 samples the protein ran from 23.56 to 26.44 P er cent. 



MOLASSES GRAINS (ANALYSES PAGE 47). 



Brewers' grains are not sold in the State, but recently a Mil- 

 waukee firm has been putting upon the market a mixture of 

 dried brewers' grains and molasses, under the name of Molasses 

 grains, or Molasses feed. The goods are rather sticky and do 

 not run uniform, so far as the 8 samples analyzed show. The 

 guarantee is not in accord with the law of this State, but covers 

 the sum of protein and fat. Deducting the fat found, the guar- 

 antee for protein is about 18 per cent and the goods with two 

 -exceptions carried more protein. The protein ran from 16.63 

 to 23.19 per cent. It seems doubtful if this can be sold at a 

 price that will be economical for a horse or a cow feed at this 

 •distance from its place of manufacture. 



M£AT MEALS AND GROUND SCRAPS (ANALYSES PAGE 47). 



The meat meals and ground beef scraps are used chiefly for 

 feeding poultry, and while they are very generally distributed, it 

 is probable that the sales are not large as compared with other 

 materials coming under the feeding stuffs law. The guarantees 

 placed upon the goods are only a very general guide to the 

 actual composition. It will be noted that while all the brands 

 are quite irregular in composition, that some uniformly run much 

 higher in protein than others. Some of the companies have 

 made at least two guesses in different years as to what their 

 goods are and evidently some still need revision. Bradley's 

 superior meat meal is guaranteed 40 per cent and carries from 

 28 to 35 per cent protein. Kendall & Whitney's ground beef 

 scrap, guaranteed at 50 per cent, carried in one instance 49 per 

 ■cent and in another. 70 per cent. Swift's Lowell bone and meat 

 meal ranged from 30 to 50 per cent protein. As these feeds are 

 used only in small amounts in a ration, the fluctuations do not 

 greatly affect the daily food of the fowl. 



JREFUSES FROM MILLING OATS, CORN, ETC. (ANALYSES PAGE 48). 



The use of the various oat feeds, corn chops, corn and oat 

 feeds and similar offals by themselves, or blended with concen- 

 trated feeds, still continues. They vary in composition from the 



