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our senses; for we need not think for one 
moment that the manufacturers will stop 
placing upon the market inferior goods, 
so long as there are places like South 
Carolina, Geg^rgia, Florida and Alabama 
to be used as dumping grounds for what 
more than half the States east of the Mis¬ 
sissippi will not have. 
Believing that this condition existed, 
the Chemical Department of the Experi¬ 
ment Station began, last November, an in¬ 
vestigation with a view to ascertaining the 
exact extent to which low grade and adul¬ 
terated feeding stuffs are being placed up¬ 
on the market. 
Samples were secured from the various 
sections of the State, largely through 
students of the University who went to 
their homes at the Thanksgiving and 
Christmas vacations. 
They were instructed to secure samples 
of the different concentrated feeds, which 
should, so far as possible, represent the 
whole lot from which they were taken, 
and also to secure the trade name, name 
and location of the manufacturer, and the 
selling price per sack of 100 pounds, or 
per ton, in the case of wholesale dealers. 
The names of dealers are reserved, since 
it is not intended to work any hardship to 
the wholesaler or retailer, so long as there 
is no law requiring them to maintain a 
certain standard. 
As a result of this, forty-three samples, 
representing a considerable variety of 
feeding stuffs, and collected from differ¬ 
ent parts of the State, have been analyzed. 
It would have been much better could the 
number of samples and localities rep¬ 
resented been greater, but the limited time 
and pressure of other work did not permit 
this. 
It is believed, however, that the work 
represents, fairly well, the feeding stuffs 
on sale throughout the State. 
Taking up first the brans and compar¬ 
ing their protein and fat content with the 
standard we find that all of the 
samples examined fail to come up to the 
minimum standard requirement in pro¬ 
tein—^15 per cent. 
Number 1799 is very low in protein and 
fat, while the fibre—^^indigestible part—is 
over 17 per cent, whereas, in good wheat 
bran it should not much exceed 9 per 
cent. This sample was highly adulterated 
with ground corn cobs and screenings. 
Number 1714 contained wheat chaff, 
corn bran, and various pieces of foreign 
matter, indicating mill sweepings. Num¬ 
bers 1726, 1730, and 1731 contained corn 
bran; 1807, dirt and oat chaff, and 1831, 
chaff, corn bran, and other foreign matter, 
probably mill sweepings. The average 
retail price for eight of the twelve samples 
is $1.38 per sack of 100 pounds, (27.60 
per ton,) which is undoubtedly excessive 
when it is remembered that not one of the 
samples comes up to the minimum stand¬ 
ard for pure wheat bran. 
Six samples of Purina, four of Victor 
and one each of Boss, Parcell and Mack’s 
Mule Feed, are corn and oat feeds, and 
are composed of cracked corn, ground or 
crushed oats and oat hulls, the oat hulls in 
most cases predominating. These are no 
doubt, the product of cereal food mills, 
and furnish a means of disposing of the 
oat hull at a good profit. They have a 
fair feeding value, though in most cases 
this is not in proportion to the price asked 
for them. Certainly this can be said of 
those obtained at Dania and Hallandale. 
The average protein content of the four 
samples of Victor Feed is only 7.62 per 
cent, while the fat is 3.05 per cent, and in 
this connection it is interesting to note 
that five samples of Victor Corn and oats 
