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etc. In others the material is treated to ex- 

 tract the oil from the germ and then sold 

 under the name- of maize feed. The material 

 which passes the bolting cloth is treated to 

 separate most of the starch, and the residue is 

 sold as gluten meal, cream gluten, etc. The 

 Chicago gluten meal, it is said, has had a part 

 of the fat extracted from it. In some cases the 

 gluten meal is mixed with the hulls and germs 

 without the oil being extracted. This is said 

 to be the case with Buffalo gluten feed. These 

 materials should not be compared with grano- 

 gluten, which is a dried distillery refuse. The 

 residues from these factories are frequently 

 sold in their wet condition, containing from 60 

 to 70 per cent of water, under the names of wet 

 starch feed, sugar feed, glucose feed, etc. These 

 wet products must be used at once, as they 

 ferment. The dried products from the same 

 factory often vary considerably in composition. 

 Owing to these variations, and to the fact that 

 there is such a variety of names for these pro- 

 ducts it is difficult to make any helpful class- 

 ification; the farmer can only be certain of 

 what he is buying when he buys on a guar- 

 anty of composition or from lots that have been 

 analyzed. 



Hominy chop, meal and feed are by-products 

 from the manufacture of honiiny and " contain 

 the germ and coarser portions of the corn. 



