96 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I906. 



WHEAT BRANS AND MIDDLINGS, — MIXED FEEDS. 



Analyses pages 8y and 88. 



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

 expected, quite largely in composition. A good quality of mixed 

 feed or wheat bran should carry at least 15 per cent of protein 

 and, as noted in the table, some of them run as high as 17 per 

 cent. With the exception of the mixed feeds from Kentucky, sold 

 under varying names, there seems to be no adulterated wheat 

 bran or middlings upon the market. The Jersey mixed feed of 

 the Indiana Milling Company, and the Indiana mixed feed and 

 Dairy mixed feed of Jennings & Fulton are wheat bran, mixed 

 with other refuses, chiefly corn cobs. Most of these goods 

 ofifered in the State are properl}' tagged, carrying not only the 

 percentage of protein and fat, but the statement of their compo- 

 sition, showing the foreign materials that have been added to 

 the wheat bran. In two instances there was an attempt to evade 

 the law by substituting for cob meal in one instance " corn and 

 cob meal " and in another the phrase " crushed ear corn." 

 When, however, the attention of the companies was called to 

 this, proper labels were attached, so that most of the Indiana and 

 similar mixed feeds are now labeled winter wheat bran, winter 

 wheat ship stiff and corn cob meal. Unfortunately, however, 

 there have been some instances in which the jobber, apparently, 

 sold these adulterated goods for straight feeds. In the only 

 instance, however, in which this fact can be definitely proven, 

 there happened to be in the sample submitted an unusually small 

 amount of corn cob so that the adulterated mixed feed carried 

 only a little more crude fiber and but little less protein than a very 

 poor straight wheat offal sometimes carries. On this account 

 the case was not reported for prosecution. 



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. It is gratifying to report, however, that on his last 

 tour, the irispector found no considerable amount of this class 

 of goods in the hands of the dealers. 



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 



