384 Rerorr or INSPECTION WoRK OF THR 
COMMENTS. 
It is gratifying to note that the unmixed, or what may perhaps 
properly be termed, the standard, feeding stuffs, such as cotton- 
seed and linseed oil meals, the gluten meals and feeds, the 
brewer’s residues and hominy feeds, are of uniformly good 
quality and are practically as good as the guarantees. The only 
important instance of inferior quality in these classes of goods 
is the case of Mayflower Linseed Meal manufactured by the 
Mayflower Mills, Fort Wayne, Ind. It is believed that this 
brand has been withdrawn from the market. It is clearly 
fraudulent in character, as the protein was only about half the 
proportion represented to be present. 
The most numerous discrepancies between guarantees and 
actual composition occur with the mixed goods of which oat 
hulis are undoubtedly a component. These are the goods which 
in many instances bear such brand names as “ chop feed,” “ corn 
and oat feed,” ‘“ mixed feed,” etc., which lead the purchaser to 
conclude that the mixtures are made up of corn and oats. They 
have the appearance of being corn and oats, because corn meal 
or hominy feed and oat hulls are present. The protein guaran- 
teed is usually less than 10 per ct., often less than 9 per ct. and 
in some brands less than 8 per ct., but even these low percent- 
ages are not always maintained because of an evident overdose 
of the worthless oat hulls. 
The prominence of oat hulls in some of these mixtures is seen 
in the large proportion of fibre which they carry. The only 
grain product which supplies fibre generously is oat hulls, and 
when a mixture containing a considerable proportion of corn 
meal or hominy feed shows 12 per ct. of fiber and upwards, it is 
safe to conclude that oat hulls have been introduced. The same 
is true often when the fiber is less than 12 per ct. Attention 
is invited to the percentages of fiber given in the preceding 
tables. 
Many genuine mixtures of corn and oats are sold. These seem 
to be more abundant, that is, they constitute a larger propor- 
