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straight oat hull refuse, with less than 6 per cent protein, to 

 blends that carry from 15 to 18 per cent protein. For the most 

 part these goods are fairly well up to their guarantees. No fault 

 can be found with the manufacturer for desiring to sell these 

 waste products. They make few claims for nutrients which the 

 goods do not actually carry. The feeder has himself to blame if, 

 with barns filled with hay, corn fodder and silage, he buys this 

 class of feeds low in protein, instead of those high in protein. An 

 oat feed with 6 per cent protein is no better feed nor is it any 

 better digested than oat straw with the same protein content. 

 It is finely ground and saves some work of mastication for the 

 animal that eats it. 



Clover meal is sold for poultry. In composition it corresponds 

 fairly well with ordinary clover. 



Gee's extra fancy sharps and Gee's oil cake meal are made 

 from wheat refuses and the weed seeds removed in cleaning 

 wheat before milling. They are not sold at such prices as to 

 invite their use in preference to the materials they more or less- 

 resemble in protein content. 



WHEAT BRAN AND MIDDLINGS — MIXED FEED (ANALYSES 

 PAGE 50). 



The results of analyses of samples of wheat offals sent to the 

 Station by correspondents and collected by the inspectors are 

 given in the table. 



In the fall of 1899 the State was flooded with low grade, 

 adulterated wheat brans and mixed feeds. Because of the pub- 

 licity given to these fraudulent goods and the co-operation of 

 the best of the large dealers, they have quite largely disappeared, 

 or are sold under a proper guarantee. 



There is so much profit in selling ground corn cobs, broom 

 corn and other valueless materials 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. If consumers will see to it that all of this class 

 of feeds which they buy carries the name of the miller, there 

 Avill be little likelihood of their being defrauded. In case of any 

 doubt, any resident of Maine is invited to mail a sample to the 

 Station. An analysis will be made and the results reported 

 promptly and without charge. 



