68 Report oF THE DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY OF THE 
Director Woods of the Maine Station gave this product a careful 
examination and his report concerning it includes the following 
statements. 
“These goods were sent to an expert on food mixtures and 
adulterations at the Connecticut Experiment Station who reports 
as follows: ‘I have examined Blatchford’s calf meal under the 
microscope and find it contains linseed meal, some product from 
the wheat kernel, some product from the bean kernel and a little 
fenugreek. The linseed meal appears to be the chief constituent. 
The wheat product is bran, middlings or some similar product con- 
sisting of starchy matter mixed with more or Jess of the seed coats. 
Bean bran was present in considerable amount and more or less of 
the starchy matter.’ 
“Tn a letter just at hand from Mr. J. Barwell, the proprietor of 
these goods, he says: ‘ Regarding the ingredients, I cannot give 
you the exact constituents of it, but I may say that it is composed 
mostly of locust bean meal with leguminous seeds such as lentils, 
etc., and oleaginous seeds such as flax-seed, fenugreek and anise 
seed, all cleaned, hulled and ground together and thoroughly 
well cooked. There is no cheap mill food and no low grade feed 
enters into this composition. J am prepared to go into any court 
in the United States and make an affidavit that there is no farmer 
in the United States that can compound Blatchford’s calf meal 
for less than $3.50 per hundred.’ 
“Locust bean meal which Mr. Barwell claims to be the chief 
constituent of Blatchford’s calf meal is practically not used in this 
country as a cattle feed. The average of ten English and Ger- 
man analyses show it to carry: Water, 14.96 per ct.; ash, 2.53 
per ct.; protein, 5.86 per ct.; crude fiber, 6.39 per ct.; nitrogen- 
free-extract, 68.98 per ct.; fat, 1.28 per ct. 
“It is evident from the chemical analyses that locust bean meal 
ean not be the chief constituent of Blatchford’s calf meal, but that 
the microscopist is correct that linseed meal is the chief constituent. 
Locust. bean meal has only six per cent of protein and in order to 
make a mixture carrying from twenty-six to thirty-three per ct. 
