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Notes on Feeding Stuffs. 



[mar., 



There has been an appreciable fall in prices of feeding stuffs, 

 especially cakes, since last month, due no doubt to the fact 

 that there are more than average stocks 

 in the country. Refined oils have in- 

 creased in price, and this may have enabled 

 the cake crushers to take less for their 

 cake. The fall in price has not been 

 uniform, however, as is shown by the 

 following table, which gives prices per ton 

 and per food unit of a number of common feeding stuffs. The 

 prices are approximately those reahsed at London wharf or 

 store. Local prices will in most cases be rather higher on 

 account of freight and commission. 



Notes on Feeding 

 StuflFs for April : 



From the 

 Animal Nutrition 

 Institute. Cambridge 

 University. 



Table I. 





No. of 

 Food 



Price 



Price 





Units 

 per Ton. 



per Ton. 



per Food 

 Unit. 







£ s. 



s. d. 



Palm kernel cake 



96 



12 



2 6 



Wheat middlings — coarse 



90 



12 10 



2 9 



Ground nut cake — semi -decorticated . , 



no 



16 10 



3 



Coconut cake (home-made) 



103 



16 



3 I 



Wheat bran 



78 



12 10 



3 3 



Decorticated cotton seed meal 



126 



22 10 



3 7 



,. ,, cake, American . . 

 Brewer's grains, dried . . 



126 



23 



3 8 



85 



16 5 



3 10 



Soya bean cake . . 



122 



24 



4 



Linseed cake, Indian 



123 



24 15 



4 



,, ,, English . . 



123 



24 10 



4 



Chinese beans 



lOI 



20 10 



4 I 



Cotton cake, Enghsh made 



72 



16 



4 5 



,, Egyptian 



72 



16 5 



4 6 



,, ,, Bombay . . 



65 ^ 



15 



4 7 



English beans 



100 



23 15 



4 9 



Maize meal 



86 



20 10 



4 9 



American . . 



94 



23 



4 II 



English oats . . 



75 



21 10 



5 9 



The table shows the very great variations in the value of 

 different feeding stuffs at present prices. Thus, EngUsh Oats 

 cost considerably more than twice as much per food unit as 

 palm kernel cake or wheat middhngs. Reference to Table IL, 

 giving the composition of common feeding stuffs, shows that 

 among the first five feeding stuffs in Table L, all of which under 

 present conditions must be considered cheap, there is very 

 great variety in composition. 



Palm kernel cake contains 14 per cent, of digestible protein 

 and 6 per cent, of digestible oil. It is not so rich in these 



