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Bulletin 116 ' January, 1905

NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE

Agricultural Experiment Station

THE

Inspection of Feeding-Stuffs

IN 1904

IN COOPERATION WITH THE STATE BOARD

OF AGRICULTURE

NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
OF

AGRICULTURE AND THE MECHANIC ARTS

DURHAM

COMPOSITION OF COMMON CATTLE FOODS.

Water, i Ash.

Protein.

Soluble
Carbohy-
drates.

Fibre. Fat

* Hay, red top

* Hay, Timothy .-. . .

* Hay, clover

* Hay, Hungarian

* Oat fodder

* Rye fodder, in bloom

* Corn stover

t Corn silage

*Corn, N. H. Flint

* Corn meal

* Oats, whole

§ Wheat bran, spring — ". ...

§ Wheat bran, winter

IT Wheat middlings

IT Gluten feed

IT Gluten meal

J Distillers' Grains

X Brewers' Grains

X Malt sprouts

IT Linseed meal, new process
tT Cottonseed meal

8.9

5.2

13.2

4.4

15.3

6.2

7.7

6.0

8.9

6.2

8.5

5 9

! 40.1

3.4

80.5

1.5

10.1

1.5

15.0

1.4

11.0

3.0

10.6

6.0

11.7

5.9

10.3

3.3

8.6

1.2

8.8

.7

8.8

1.8

8.0

3.8

11.0

5.8

10.1

5.8

6.9

7.2

7.9

5.9

12.3

7.5

7.6

9.7

3.8

1.6

11.6

9.2

11.8

16.3

15.2

19.0

26.3

35.5

32.1

23.1

27.1

33.2

45.6

47.4
45.0
38.1
49.0
45.1
43.4
31.9
10.0
70.2
68.7
59.7
53.0
54.8
57.7
53.4
50.3
34.9
49.4
42.6
38.4
25.1

28.6

29.0

24.8

27.7

29.3

30.2

19.7

5.8

1.1

1.9

9.5

9.4

8.5

4.6

6.9

1.6

11.0

10.8

11.9

9.5

5.6

1.9
2.5
3.3
2.1
2.8
2.8
1.1
.6
5.5
3.8
5.0
4.7
3.9
5.1
3.6
3.1
11.4
4.9
1.6
3.0
9.6

♦ Composition of American Feeding Stuffs. Jenkins and Winton.

t Analyses made at the N. H. Expt. Sta., 1895-1899.

§ Penn. Expt. Sta. Bull. 48.

IT Compiled from Feed Inspection Reports and Comp. Am. Feeding Stuffs.

X Hatch Expt. Sta. Bull., No. 94.

THE INSPECTION OF FEEDING-STUFFS IN

1904

Fifty samples of commercial feeding-stuffs, wldcli came
within the scope of the statute, were collected by the State
Board of Agriculture and analyzed at the Agricultural Ex-
periment Station. Of these samples, five showed marked
deficits in one or both of the constituents guaranteed.

Two samples of cotton-seed meal were low in protein ; but
one of them was exceptionally high in fat, which in a
measure offset the deficit. A sample of linseed meal
showed a similar deficit in protein, partially made good by
an excess of fat. A sample of hominy feed was unrea-
sonably low in both protein and fat, and a sample of beef
scraps was low in protein only. One sample of gluten feed
unaccompanied by a guarantee was much lower than the
average in protein; but was retailed at as high a price as
the others.

The prices of the different kinds of feeds should be care-
fully considered by the purchaser. They are apparently
based on the demand for certain classes of goods and are
made as high as the market will bear. They frequently are
out of proportion to the intrinsic value of the material and
vary widely in different localities for the same kind of feed.
Gluten feeds, with practically the same feeding values,
varied from $27 to $33 per ton. Cotton-seed meal, on the
other hand, varied between $29 and $31 per ton, which is not
unreasonable.

In comparing prices of different classes of feeding-stuffs,
equally striking facts are observed.

Cotton-seed and linseed meal were both sold for an aver-
age price of $30 per ton, while the average of gluten feeds

4 INSPECTION OF FEEDIN(;-STUrFS

^Yas $29 per ton. At these prices, cotton-seed meal is more
economical to buy for winter feeding, when the ration must
consist largel}^ of hay and silage. Equivalent grain mix-
tures, with cotton-seed meal and bran on the one hand, and
gluten feed and bran on the other, will cost from five to
ten per cent, less with the cotton-seed than with the gluten

A comparatively new line of cattle-foods on our markets
is the distillers' dried grains. They have a feeding value
fully equal to the gluten feeds and have been relatively
cheaper, the average price per ton having been about $28.

A class of feeding-stuffs, persistently overvalued by the
consumer with resultant profits to the dealers and manu-
facturers, are the mixtures prepared from corn and oat
refuse. The class known as corn and oat feeds ranged in
price from $23 to $27 per ton, or about the same as wheat
bran. They have as a rule about half the amount of pro-
tein that bran should contain and several per cent, more
fiber ; and, on the basis of digestible matter, they should be
valued at not more than four fifths the value of bran. Oat-
feeds are still poorer and, while selling at $18 to $20 per
ton, have a composition no better than well-cured oat-fod-
der.

On the other hand, hominy feeds are practically as val-
uable as corn meal, since much of our corn meal is prepared
from inferior grain, while the hominy feed is the refuse
from selected grain and from the richer parts of the kernel,
when considered as a cattle-food.

As a whole, the inspection shows a careful compliance
with the law on the part of manufacturers, in making their
goods equal to their statements of composition. The law
cannot regulate prices, but the purchaser can, by declining
to purchase goods which are valued too highly in proportion
to their stated composition.

INSPECTION OF FEEDING-STUFFS

COMPOSITION OF COMMERCIAL FEEDING STUFFS, 1904.

Brand.

Manufactured by

Sampled at

Protein.

Guar.

Found,

Fat.

Guar. Found.

Owl

Green Diamond

Magnolia

Dixie

Star

Soper's

Cleveland

Old Process.

Cream
Cream

Buffalo...

Globe

Pekin

Queen....
Warner's.

Quaker.
H.-O...

Green Diamond

Wirthmore

Hominy Feed.

Buckeye.

Cotton-seed Meal.

F. W. Brodie & Co

Chapin & Co

Chas. M. Cox Co

Humphreys, Goodwin &Co.

Sledge & Wells Co

J. E. Soper & Co

Linseed Meal.

American Linseed Co.
American Linseed Co.

Gluten Meal.

Chas. Pope Glucose Co

Chas. Pope Glucose Co

Gluten Feed.

Glucose Sugar Refining Co.
New York Glucose Co

Dairy Feed.

American Cereal Co.
H.-O. Company

Hominy meal.

Chapin & Co

Hominy Feed.

Chas. M. Cox Co

Miner, Hillard Milling Co.

Wheat Feed.

Vim

Royal...
David's.

Oat Feed.

American Cereal Co

Great Western Cereal Co.

Corn and Oat Feed.

Victor ,

Boss

Durham

Excelsior

De-fl

Haskell's

H.-O. Horse.

American Cereal Co

Great Western Cereal Co.
Great Western Cereal Co..

Ellsworth & Co...
W. H. Haskell Co.
H.-O. Company...

Concord....'.. .

Newport

Sandwich

Sandwich

Bristol

Contoocook...

Contooeook.. .
Franklin Falls

Newport.
Derry

Contoocook ..
Franklin Falls
Manchester...
North Weare.
Sandwnch. ...

Bristol

Manchester

Derrj'...

Nashua Jet.
Derry

Laconia.

Manchester...
Franklin Falls
Manchester.. .;

43.
4.3.
43.
43.
43.
43.

38.
32.

3.5.5

27.

18.

11.

10.5
10.

Laconia ! 9.

Newport

Nashua Jct...|

Nashua Jet. ..I 8.0

Concord 8.3

W.Manchest'r

Laconia 12.

46 83

9.

36.87

9.

45.34

9.

45.44

9.

40.95

9.

44.72

9.

33.82

1.

36.12

5.

36.21

44.88

3.

26.23

26.78

3.38

24.08

25.96

18.88

14.48

17.60

4.5

8.41

8.

10.62

7.5

10.

7.5

21.23

6.23

7.28

7.90

14.37

4.

8.95

8.75

10.36

4.2

8.73

3.0

8.57

11.71

4.5

7.54
12.44
9.90
9.58
9.27
9.59

2.11
7.63

2.30
1.04

3.11

2.27
3.21
2.28
2.30

2.87
4.21

4.84

6.81
6.35

4.68

2.36
1.62
2.02

3.21
2.93
4.68
6.66
1.62
5.25
4.5

INSPECTION OF FEEDING-STUFFS

COMPOSITION OF COMMERCIAL FEEDING STUFFS, 1904.— Conclwded.

Brand.

Manufactured by

Sampled at

Protein.

Guar. Found.

Fat.

Guar. Found.

Distiller's Grain.

Ajax Flakes..-
Biles Ready Ra-
tion
Blue Ribbon —
Empire State . . .

Poultry Food.

American American Cereal Co

Armour's Armour Fertilizer Works.

H.-O H.-O. Company

Page's C. S. Page

Pratt's Pratt Food Co

Meat and Bone Meals.

Bradley's Supe-j
rior
Beef Scraps..
Meat and Bone.
Beef Scraps..
Animal Meal..
Swift's Beef

Scraps Lowell Fertilizer Co Manchester.

Swift's Meat i

and Bone Lowell Fertilizer Co.
Whitman &

American Agri. Chemical Co.
American Agri. Chemical Co.

Beach Soap Co

Bowker Fertilizer Co

The Bowker Co

Manchester. ' 27.59

Derry

Concord .
Newport.

Concord

Woodsville...

Concord 17.

Groveton

Meredith

Manchester.

Laconia

Concord

Concord —

30.

40.
26.
50.
30.

Pratt's

Blatchford's

Calf Meal
Blatchford's
Sugar &Flaxs'd

Miscellaneous.

Nashua

Manchester.

Bristol

Nashua Jet.

28.25

23.62
33.31
32.60

13.45
22.59
15.77
25.89
14.68

37.17
46.96
26.45
42.31
34.37

41.33

52.65

39.62

23.31
26.73

5.5

S.
15.
10.
15.

5.

11.25

8.82

6.93
14.19
13.06

6.31
0.40
4.86
3.85
8.05

9.84
14.23

8.65
14.24

8.33

18.20

9.76

15.24

4.11

10.71

Fred W. Morse, Chemist.

INSrECTIOJ^ OF FEEDING-STUFFS

ABSTRACT OF FEEDING-STUFF STATUTE.

Tlie state Legislature of 1901 passed an act to regulate
the sale of concentrated commercial feeding-stuffs.

The points of the law of most interest to the consumer are
concisely stated below.

Kinds of Feed coming ivitJiin the Law. The law applies
to all feeding-stuffs, except hays and straws; whole seeds
and meals of w^heat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buck-
wheat and broom corn; brans and middlings. The prin-
cipal feeds coming under the provisions of the law are lin-
seed meals, cotton-seed meals, pea meals, cocoanut meals,
gluten meals, gluten feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar
feeds, dried brewers' grains, malt sprouts, hominy feeds,
eerealine feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn and oat chops,
ground beef or fish scraps, mixed feeds and all other mate-
rials of similar nature.

The Brand. Each package of feeding-stuff included within
the law shall have affixed, conspicuously printed, the fol-
lowing statements:

The number of net pounds contained in the package.

The name or trademark under which it is sold.

The name of the manufacturer or shipper.

The place of manufacture.

The place of business of manufacturer or shipper.

The percentage of crude protein.

The percentage of crude fat.
These statements may be printed directly on the bag or on a
tag attached to the package.

Analysis. The secretary of the Board of Agriculture is
required to collect and analyze each year at least one sample
of each of the brands of feeding-stuffs coming within the
provisions of the act, and publish the results, together with
related matter, from time to time.

8

INSPECTION OF FEEDING-STUFFS

DIGESTIBLE NUTRIENTS IN COMMON CATTLE FOODS.-POUNDS

IN IOC.

Protein.

Carbohj'drates.l Fat.

* Hay, Red Top

* Hay, Timothy

* Hay, Clover

* Hay, Hungarian

* Oat Fodder

* Corn Stover

* Corn Silage

* Corn Meal

* Oats

* Wheat Bran

* Wheat Middlings

t Gluten Feed

t Gluten Meal

IT Brewer's Dried Grains

IT Malt Sprouts

TT Distillers' Dried Grains —
t Linseed Meal, new process
t Cottonseed Meal ■

4.8

2.8

6.8

4.5

4.3

1.7

0.9

7.9

9.2

12.2

12.8

22.5

31.3

18.9

20.6

23.4

29.3

31.0

46.9
43.4
85.8
51.7
46.4
32.4
11.3
66.7
47.3
39.2
53.0
52.0
46.0
34.2
47.8
38.6
36.3
16.9

1.0
1.4
1.7
1.3
1.5
0.7
0.7
4.3
4.2
2.7
3.4
3.0
2.6
4.3
0.9
10.8
2.9
8.3

* From Henry's Feeds and Feeding.

t Calculated from latest inspection reports.

IT Calculated from Bull. 94, Hatch Expt. Sta.

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