FEIEJDING STUFF INSPEICTION. 97 



on the watch against this fraud. The safest thing is to buy only 

 well known, reliable brands of this class of goods. The bulle- 

 tin gives the names and analyses of many manufacturers of high 

 class brans, and other wheat offals. If consumers will see to it 

 that all of this class of feeds which they buy carries the name of 

 the miller th'ere will be little likelihood of their being defrauded. 

 In case of any doubt, mail a sample to the Station and an 

 analyses will be made and the results reported promptly and 

 without any charge. 



MEAT MBAIvS AND GROUND SCRAPS. 



Analyses page 88. 



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 as large as some of the 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 in several instances there are 

 no guarantees accompanying the analyses of the samples, but 

 this does not necessarily indicate the goods were not properly 

 branded, as in some instances the samples were submitted by 

 correspondents without the needed data. 



In the table which follows, there is given the percentages of 

 ash which were found in the beef scrap and similar materials 

 here reported. The ash measures fairly well the percentage of 

 bone contained in the goods. As the nitrogen in bone is not as 

 valuable as that in meat, this fact should be taken into account 

 in the purchase of beef scrap. Furthermore, the market price 

 of meat meal is considerably higher than that of bone meal. 

 Such a beef scrap as Armour's (No. 21 17) which carries no 

 more ash than ordinary meat, would be a much more 

 economical feed than several others of the scraps and meals 

 found in the table in which more than a third of their weight is 

 ash. A meat meal carrying no more than 5 per cent of ash 

 would have a much higher market and much higher feeding 

 value than a meat meal with hisfh ash content. 



