FEEDING STUFF INSPECTION. 59 



than upon the guarantees. The beef scrap of Noyes and Pear- 

 son, carrying 65 per cent of protein, is an unusual one. 



BY-PRODUCTS OF THE OAT. 



In the manufacture of oat products for human food, the kernel 

 of the oat is separated from the hull. Oat hulls are in them- 

 selves, low in food value, being worth but little more than the 

 same weight of oat straw. Their value may be materially 

 greater if broken kernels or small oats are ground in with them. 

 Manufacturers of oat products are putting ground oat hulls on 

 the market in many forms and mixtures, such as oat feed, oat 

 chop, corn and oat feed, chop, etc. The bulk of all these mate- 

 rials is ground oat hulls, with admixtures of oat kernels, ground 

 corn, etc. The feeding value of them is variable, and they should 

 never be bought except on a guaranteed composition, and then 

 it should be remembered that the oat hulls are not as digestible 

 as the kernel of oats or other grains. Unscrupulous dealers fre- 

 quently sell "oat feeds" as ground oats, the unsuspecting buyer 

 thinking he is getting the whole oat meal, which is much more 

 valuable than most oat feeds. 



The various oat feeds, corn chops and corn and oat feeds are 

 still used in the State to a large extent. Some of these are the 

 straight refuse from the manufacture of oat meal and others, like 

 the H — O Company's goods, are mixtures of such refuse with 

 other by-products of higher protein content. With a few excep- 

 tions they are well up to their respective guarantees and no fault 

 can be found with the manufacturers for their desire to sell these 

 goods, as they are making no claims for nutrients which the 

 goods do not contain. Argyle Oat Feed and Viking Dairy Feed 

 have a feeding value about equal to ground oat straw and the 

 Yankee Corn and Oat Feed is little better. The intelligent buyer 

 of feeding stuffs, who has his barns well filled with hay, com 

 fodder and silage, will have very little use for these feeds low in 

 protein content. 



WHEAT BRAN AND MIDDLINGS. — MIXED FEED. 



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

 Station by correspondents and collected by the inspector are 

 given on pages 48 to 51. 



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

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



