10 
GLUCOSE OR STARCH WASTE AS CATTLE Foops. 
The object of these feeding experiments commenced Dec. 11, 
1884, isto determine the value of the wastes of the glucose and starch 
factories as afood, when used in the fresh, acid, and dried condition. 
These foods appear upon the market under various names. 
The ‘‘ wet feed” or *‘ corn feed” or ‘‘ starch feed” or “‘ slump” 
is the first or raw waste from the manufacture of starch or glucose, 
it being that part of the maize grain from which the starch has been 
removed, and is sold in its wet state, more or less freed from the 
water of manufacture, but always wet and freed from a portion of 
the gluten of the grain. It presents a not unattractive appearance 
when fresh, and is subject, upon exposure, to an acid fermentation, 
which is said to pass at times into the putrefactive, but no putridity 
was developed with us during the season it was kept stored for use, 
and used. 
The ‘‘dry feed” or ‘‘ starch meal” is the ‘‘ wet feed” brought 
toa dry state before being sold, by the evaporation of the water, and 
often more or less of the gluten which has been removed added to the 
dry product. It is a yellow, flaky or bran like product, sweet and 
well tasted, and being dry, is subject to no acid or putrefactive 
changes. 
The ‘‘ gluten meal,” not fed in these experiments, is the gluti- 
nous portion of the starch waste, roughly separated from the gross 
waste, and whose removal leaves the wet feed. It is dried and 
ground and appears in the market in the form of a handsome yellow 
meal, sweet and pleasantly flavored. 
The analyses of these various products, as made at the Station, to- 
gether with that of the hay and corn meal which entered into these 
experiments, are as below : 
Hay. 9) “Wet “Wet. "Dry Corn Gluten meal 
feed’’ feed” feed’, ; meal. 
Duryea Am. Glu- Av. of3 Wau- From From 
Starch cose Co. analyses. shakum Chicago Am.Glu- 
Co. Duryea’ Flint cose Co. 
yas Corn. 
0. 
Water 14.18 68.51 65.50 12.59 15.80 7.31 8.25 
Ash 6.16 21 18 .67 1.05 74 .86 
Albuminoid (N.x.6.25) 10.36 6.55 4.31 16.09 10.81 28.08 30.16 
Crude fiber 29.38 2.07 4,29 8.22 1.58 73 2.44 
Nitrogen-free extract 36.88 18.69 22.46 56.72 67.64 54.46 53.13 
Ether extract (Fat) 8.09 3.9%), 8.26 15.7%) 3.62 3.8780 eG 
The cattle used were two native cows, Ceres and Juno purchased 
in new milk, and landed at the station Dec. 10, 1884. They were at 
once placed in the experimental barn, in which they were kept until 
April, without exercise; but in April were turned out daily on 
pleasant days into a small paddock from which all feed had been 
carefully removed. These cattle were weighed daily each morning 
before being fed or watered, and their food and water was weighed 
to them, and the unconsumed portions, if any, carefully collected 
and weighed, the difference between the weighings thus giving the 
amount of food consumed. ‘The cattle scales weigh to the pound ; 
the feed scales, upon which each milking was also weighed, turn with 
one quarter of an ounce. 
