IIO MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1916. 



Feeding Stuffs — Continued. 



Brand, Maker and Guaranties. 



Results op Examination. 



Blatchford's Calf Meal. Rlatchford Calf 

 Meal Factory, Waukegan, 111. Composed 

 of locust bran meal, impressed flaxseed, 

 wheat flour, blood flour, barley meal, 

 ground beans and peas, rice polish, old pro- 

 cess oil meal, cocoa shell meal, cocoanut 

 meal, recleaned cottonseed meal, fenugreek, 

 dried milk, anise and salt. Contains not 

 more than 6f per cent, crude fiber, and not 

 less than 5 per cent, fat and 24 per cent, 

 protein. Registered in 1915 and 1916. 



Blatchford's Pig Meal. Blatchford Calf 

 Meal Factory, Waukegan.^Ill. Composed 

 of linseed oil meal, bean and locust bean 

 meal, oat meal, blood flour, wheat flour, 

 barley meal, recleaned cottonseed meal, 

 rice polish, corn meal, cocoa shell meal, 

 crushed flaxseed, anise and salt. Contains 

 not more than 7 per cent, crude fiber, and 

 not less than 5 per cent, fat and 18 per cent, 

 protein. Registered in 1915 and 1916 



Bufceco Creamery Feed. Buffalo Cereal 

 Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Composed of ground 

 corn, wheat bran and middlings, hominy 

 feed, corn gluten feed, cottonseed meal, 

 oat shorts, oat middlings, oat hulls, | of 1 

 per cent. salt. Contains not more than 9 

 per cent, crude fiber, and not less than 4 

 per cent, fat and 18 per cent, protein. Reg- 

 istered in 1915 and 1916. 



Acorn Dairy Ration. Chapin & Co., Ham- 

 mond, Ind. Composed of cottonseed meal, 

 corn distillers grains, linseed meal, hom- 

 iny meal, gluten feed, corn starch by-pro- 

 ducts with corn bran, barley feed, malt 

 sprouts, brewers grains, pure wheat bran 

 and salt. Contains not more than 12 per 

 cent, crude fiber, and not less than 5.5 per 

 cent, fat and 23.5 per cent, protein. Not 

 registered in 1915. Registered in 1916. 



One official sample, 

 anty. 



In accord with guar- 



One official sample. Practically in accord 

 with guaranty. No weed seeds found. 



One official sample. Slightly below guar- 

 anty in protein; about 2 per cent above 

 guaranty in fat; over 3 per cent above 

 maximum guaranty in fiber. 



No dealers' or official samples repeived. 



Unicorn Dairy Ration. Chapin & Co., Ham 

 mond, Ind. Composed of corn distillers 

 grains, cottonseed meal, linseed meal, 

 hominy meal, gluten feed, corn starch by 

 products with corn bran, barley feed, malt 

 sprouts, brewers grains, and pure wheat 

 bran and salt. Contains not more than 10 

 per cent, crude fiber, and not less than 5.5 

 per cent, fat and 26 per cent, protein. 



Twelve official samples. Five were in ac- 

 cord with the guaranty in protein and 

 fat; fiber about 1 per cent, above maxi- 

 mum guaranty. Four of the samples 

 were slightly_ below guaranty in protein; 

 in accord with guaranty in fat; fiber 

 more than 1 per cent, above maximum 

 guaranty. Two of the samples were more 

 than lper cent, below guaranty in protein; 

 fat in accord with guaranty; fiber more 

 than 1 per cent, above maximum guar- 

 anty. One sample was more than 2 per 

 cent, below guarants' in protein; fat in 

 accord; fiber more than 1 per cent, above 

 maximum, guaranty. Two dealers' sam- 

 ples. Both were 1 per cent, low in pro- 

 tein; in accord with guaranty in fat; 

 about 1 per cent, above maximum guar- 

 anty in fiber. Contained few seeds of 

 mustard, pigweed, lady's thumb, 



night-flowering catchfly, wild buck- 

 wheat, green foxtail, yellow foxtail and 

 false flax. Few hulls of Corn cockle 

 and wild buckwheat. 



