New York AGricuLtuRAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 41 
As a matter of convenience and a nearer approximation to 
accuracy, it seems advisable to classify feeding stuffs into at least 
four groups and even with this arrangement the range of com- 
position within any one group is quite wide. 
The following are the classes suggested, with some of their 
principal members: 
Class I. 30 to 45 per ct. protein and 50 to 60 per ct. carbohy- 
drates, including cotton-seed meal, linseed meal and the gluten 
meals, such as the Chicago, King, Cream and Hammond. 
Class II. 20 to 80 per ct. protein and 60 to 70 per ct. of car- 
bohydrates, including gluten feeds, such as the Buffalo, Golden, 
Diamond, Davenport, Climax and Standard, as now made, Atlas 
meal, dried brewer’s grains, malt sprouts, buckwheat middlings 
and peas and beans. 
Class IIT. 14 to 20 per ct. of protein and 70 to 75 per ct. of 
carbohydrates, including brans and middlings from wheat and 
rye, certain so-called mixed feeds of a proprietary character, 
these being in part oat feeds fortified with some more highly 
nitrogenous material. 
Class IV. 8 to 14 per ct. of protein and 75 to 85 per ct. of 
carbohydrates, including barley, corn, oats, rye, wheat, cerealine, 
hominy and oat feeds, corn and oat chop, corn bran, corn germ 
feed and chop feed in general. 
The hays and other fodders belong in Class IV more nearly 
than in any other. 
* ANALYSES AND COMMENTS. 
THE SAMPLES AND THEIR EXAMINATION. 
The samples, the analyses of which appear in this bulletin, 
were mostly selected in this State during the past two winters by 
authorized representatives of this Station. In a majority of cases 
the selling prices are given, these being the ton prices stated to 
our agent by the dealers where the sample was procured. It is 
