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Accession No. \ 1 (o 4 O

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Bulletin 133 November 1907

NEW IIAMPSIIJKE

Agricultural Experiment Station

THE

Inspection of Feeding-Stuffs

IN 1907

IN COOPERATION WITH THE STATE BOARD

OF AGRICULTURE

By FRED W. HORSE, Ghemlst

NEW HAMPSIURE COLLEGE

OF

ACiRICLLTURE AND THE .\n:( HANIC ARTS

DURHAM

'0 ABSTRACT OF FEEDIXG-STUFF STATUTE.

ABSTRACT OF FEEDING-STUFF STATUTE.

The 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 consuu^r are con- cisely stated below.

Kinds of Feed coming within the Law. The law applies to all feeding-stuffs except hays and straws, whole seeds and meals of wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat and broom corn, brans and middlings. The principal feeds coming under the pro- visions of the law are linseed 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, cerealine feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn and oat chops, ground beef or fish scraps, mixed feeds and all other materials of similar nature.

The Brand. Each package of feeding-stuff included within the law shall have affixed, conspicuously printed, the following state- ments:

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 ta§ attached to the package.

Analysis. The secretary of the Board of Agriculture is re- quired 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.

AN INSPKOTION OV KKEDIMi-STlKFS. ( I

AN INSPECTION OF FEEDING-STUFFS.

By Fred W. Morse

Catti.e Foods.

With the exception of cotton-seed meal the different clas- ses of cattle foods which were analyzed during the past sea- son gave results which agreed in nearly every case with the guarantees of the manufacturers. One sample of linseed meal bore a guarantee of 40 per cent, protein while there was found 36.4 per cent. A compilation of published analyses* of linseed meal does not show a single result as high as 40 per cent., while the average is about 83 per cent. Therefore it would seem that the linseed meal in question was overrated.

Gluten feeds have usually been a class with numerous de- ficient samples, but this year only one out of six showed a deficit.

Cotton seed meal as a class did not make a good showing. Seven out of twelve brands guaranteed 41 per cent, of pro- tein, while but one of the seven yielded it on analysis.

A recent bulletin from Mississippi t gives the legal stand- ards for cotton seed meal established by statute in that state. High grade meal must have not less than 38.6 per cent, of protein. A glance at the table of our results will show that a majority of the brands compare closely with the Missis- sippi "Iliuh Grade," while but two samples yielded the proportion of protein so conmionly claimed by the jobbers.

Two samples need especial mention becau.se they repre- sent a class of goods which has not been observed l)efore in this state. The goods were properly tagged and bore plainly printed guarantees of protein and fat as the law requires. The samples were marked respectively Glenwood Brand Cotton Seed Feed, Protein 22 per cent., Fat 5 per cent.; and Sea Island Cotton Seed Meal, I'rotein 25 per cent.. Fat 6 per cent. The chemical analysis showed them

• (Analyses of American Feeding Stuffs, Jenkins and Winton.) t Bull. 104, Miss. Atrr. Expt. Sta.

72 AX INSPECTION OF KKEDING-STUFFS.

to be practically equal to their claims in each constituent. Therefore no fault could be found with them on that score.

The price of these goods was, however, of decided inter- est, when compared with that of standard cotton seed meal. Eight samples of standard meal contained from 38 per cent, to 42 per cent, protein and from 8.7 per cent, to 10.5 per cent, of fat. The retail prices were $1.60 and $1.65 per 100 pounds. The Glenwood and Sea Island brands retailed for $1.50 per 100 pounds.

Crude fiber was determined in the Glenwood sample, and wa^ found to be 21 per cent. Standard cotton seed meal varies between 5 and 7 per cent, for fiber. It is plain, therefore, that the two brands in question, besides posses- sing but three-fifths as much protein and fat, contain about three times as much indigestible matter as standard meal, while they are retailed at nine-tenths the price of the best. Or to put it in another way, when standard meal contain- ing 39 per cent, protein and 9 per cent, fat sold for $1.60 per 100 pounds, one pound of those nutrients cost three and one-third cents, while in the Glenwood brand, containing 22 per cent, protein and 5 per cent, fat, at $1.50 per 100 pounds, a pound of those nutrients cost five and one-half cents. These low grade materials cost too much to he eco- nomical.

Another sample of cotton seed meal, among those col- lected in the inspection, requires notice because it was a positive fraud. It bore the tag and guarantee of a stand- ard article and was retailed at the usual price of $1.60 per 100 pounds. The meal was even poorer than the Glenwood and Sea Island. The analysis revealed 19 per cent, pro- tein, 5.5 per cent, fat and 22 per cent, fiber. Since cotton seed hulls contain over 40 per cent, fiber, this meal must have had about two-fifths of its weight made up of hulls, instead of being a pure meal. They were finely ground and not very noticeable, but imparted a brown color to the meal, and when a portion of it was placed on the surface of a glass of water there was an immediate separation of t he heavier hulls by settling. The same brand with similar results hns been reported' also from Maine and Vermont.*

• Bull. 142, Me. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bull. 131, Vt. Agr. Expt. Sta.

AN INSPECTION <>F KEED1NG-STULF8. i '^

Tliese are the first instancos for several years of such marked departures from the old standards of cotton seed meal. Since standard meal will probably be even higher this fall and coming winter than last year, there will be an effort to push the low grades because of the lower price. Buyers of grain should scrutinize both tags and quality keenly before completing a purchase, as it is natural to charge all that the market will bear for an inferior article, even if there is no fraudulent substitution of tags or dis- honest claims.

Molasses is rai:)idly gaining in favor as a food for live- stock and this year we have had five different brands of goods containing mixtures of grain, coarse fodder and mo- lasses. They have jnelded the analytical results claimed for them and their guarantees can thus be depended on.

The Maryland experiment station* has found that molas- ses improves the digestibility of both grain mixtures and coarse fodders, therefore if the materials are of good qual- ity, molasses feeds should form a welcome addition to our list of commercial feeding-stuffs. The Vermont experi- ment station t has recently pointed out that the molasses feeds collected in that state yielded an abundance of weed seeds, which indicates that inferior material is used in their makeup.

While not as convenient, it may prove more economical to buy the molasses and use with home grown fodder, since in that way one may guard against the introduction of foul weeds.

As a rule the so-called "mixed feeds'' are pure wheat products; but there are a few brands which contain finely ground corn cobs mixed with wheat bran. One such brand is in our list, the "Blue Grass" mixed feed. It bore a tag correctly describing it and it was nearly equal to its guar- antee, but it was sold at the same retail price as a high grade mixed feed.

* Ball. 11 , Md. Agr. Ezpt. Sta. t Bull. 131.

COMPOSITION OF COMMERCIAL FEEDING-STUFFS, 1907.

Cattle Foods.

Brand.

Manufactured by

Protein.	Fat.
	■c		•o
u	n	C	a
a	s	ee	p
d		p	o
O	b	0	b

Cotton Seed Meal.

Cotton Seed Meal ■

Cotton Seed Meal

Dixie Brand Cotton Seed Meal

Eagle Brand Cotton Seed Meal

Old Gold Brand Cotton Seed Meal. Owl Brand Pure Cotton Seed Meal. Phcenix Brand Cotton Seed Meal...

Prime Cotton Seed Meal

Star Brand Cotton Seed Meal

Prime Cotton Seed Meal

Glenwood Brand Cotton Seed Feed Sea Island Cotton Seed Meal

Linseed Meal.

Cleveland Flax Meal Linseed Oil Meal

Distiller's and Brewer's Grains-

Ajax Flakes

Biles' XXXX Fourex Grains

Biles' Ready Ration

Di.stiller's Dried Grains

Gluten Feeds.

Bav State Gluten Feed

Globe Gluten Feed

Jenks' Gluten Feed

New England Gluten Feed Queen Gluten

Buckeye Cotton Oil Co

Consumer's Cotton Oil Co. Humphre.v, Goodwin Co...

Roberts- Ruffin Co

T. H. Bunch

F. W. Brodf & Co

D. L. Marshall & Co

Hunter Bros. Milling Co. .

J. Lindsey Wells Co

Kaiser & Brown

D. L. Marshall Co

Florida Cotton Oil Co

39.

American Linseed Co. American Linseed Co.

41.

41

41.

41

38.50

41

22

25.30

36 40

Chapin & Co

J. W. Bile'^ & Co.... J. W. Biles &Co.... Husted Milling Co.

J. E. Soper & Co

Glucose Sugar Retining Co.

Huron Milling Co

J. E. Soper & Co

Corn Products Ref. Co.

MiscKLi.ANKons Feeds.

De-H Corn and Oat Feed

Extragood .Stock Feed

H. O. Algrane Milk Feed

Horse Feed

Husiefl's Stock Feed

Pearl Horse and Cow Feed

Protena Dairy Feed

Quaker Dairy Feed

Schuniacker's Stock Feed

Victor Cf)rn and Oat Feed

Wirthmorc Slock F»'ed

Blatchford's Calf Meal

Blatchford'8 Sugar and FIn.x.seed .

J. E. Soper & Co.... Evans Milling Co..., Husted Milling Co..

Chapin & Co

R. J. Hardy & Sons.

Warner Gluten Feed Corn Products Ref. Co.

Hominy Feed. |

Blue Ribl)on Hominy Chop

Evans' Hominy Feed

Hu.sted Hominy Feed

Niagara White Meal ..

White Hominy Meal

Wheat Feed.

Blue Grass Mixed Feed

Monarch Grouml Wheat Feed

Molasses Feed.

Green Diamond Sugar Feed

Molac Dairy Feed

Molac Horse Feed

iSucrene Dairy Feed

Sucrene Horse Fee<l

A. Waller & Co

F. W. Stock & Sou.

33 33 24 15

24 26 27 25 20 24

11 10 9 10 10.

11.50

Chapin & Co

Quaker Oats Co

American Milling Co.

H.-O. Co

(iriswold & Mickinnon.

ft.-O. Co

Buflalo Cereal Co

Husted Milling Co

Klint Milling Co

Kalsion Purina Co

American Cereal Co.. American Clereal Co.. Charles M. Cox & Co.

J. W. Barwell

10.5

16

11

16.50

10.50

8.30 7.63 14

12.

8. 10 20. 12. 12.

7.50 10 25. 27.

42.5

39.60!

41.07

38.9 1

36.901

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38.00;

38.44

39.60

18.07i

21.32

24.13

34.40 36.24

32.56 31.75 23.69 15.37

22.93 27.25 28.25 20.63 27.20 27.08

11.56 11.25 9.21 10.87 11.06

10.53 18.25

17.81 14.94 14.37 18.42 15.40

9.07

7.81 14.25 11.94

8.82 10.30 19.85 17.75 10.32

7. 43 10.36 26.75 23.78

7.85

9. 9. 9.

7

12 11

7

4.

3.

2.50

7.5

3

2

2.50

8 7.5

7 7. 9.

3.19

3.5

3

3.

3.50

3.

2.07 4

4..50 4. 6

3.5 3. 5. 3. 4. 5. 10.

9.65 9.78

10.51 9.28

10.08 9.24 9.80 8.68' 8.78 5.55 5.12 8.13

8.75 3.50

12.71

11.01

7.38

5.30

2.62 3.90 9.93 2.60 3.35 3.63

7.65 10.42 4.32 8.50 7..52

2.79 6.18

4.26 4.65 3.68 5.84 5.27

3.82 3.22 3.95 4.68 5.00 5.04 4.11 3.98 3.44 2.79 7.32 4.72 12.30

$1.65 1.65 1.65 1.60 1.60 1.60 1.65 1.60 1.65 1.60 1.50 1.50

AN TXSPK«T1()N OF KKK.M NC.-STIKFS. (O

Poultry Foods.

The number of poultry foods on the market has increased considerably since our last bulletin, especially the grain mixtures. The analyses of the cereal foods compare wtll with the guarantees in almost every case. The animal products, as a class, vary considerably from their stated composition, some being much in excess of the guarantees, while others are deficient.

Five brands of animal meal and beef scraps were 5 per cent, or more low in protein, although in some of these in- stances there was a large excess of fat to offset the deficit.

It would be well for the practical poultry man to com- pare the prices of the cereal poultry foods with the prices of standard grains and by-products. Nearly every poultry food is higher in price than linseed meal, which is always at the top of the list of standard cattle foods, while if the analyses are compared, some of the poultry foods will be found to belong in the same class with the medium-priced dairy mixtures.

COMPOSITION OF COMMERCIAL FEEDING-STUFFS, 1907. Poultry Foods.

Brand.

.Manufactured by

Protein.	Fat.
	•o		•D
	a	C	a
et	s	es	9
S	' o	a	o
; O	Ek	0	^

"a 1? s

Grain Mixtures.

.\merican Poultry Feed

Blatchford's FilfBa.sket

Cypher's Chick Food

Every Morning Ma.sh Feed

Greene's Chicken Feed

H.-O. Co.'s Chick Feed

H.-O. Co.'s Poultry Feed

Husted's Chick Feed

Husted's Laying Mash

*Page'.s Perfected Poultry Food.

Pan- American Chick Feed

Poultry Feed

Wirthoiore Chick Feed

Wirthmore Mash Feed

Wonder Poultry Feed

Wyandotte Brand Chick Feed...

Quaker Oat Co

J. W. Barwell

Model Milling Co. Ross Bros. Co

12 33

10.54 12

The H.-O. Co

Husted MIg. & Elev. Co.

Husted Milling Co

Carroll S. Page

VVhiting-Eck.stein Co —

Buffalo Cereal Co

St. Albans Grain Co

Flint Mill Co

Ross Bros. Co

Beach Soap Co • •

The Bowker Co

Am Agr. Chem. Co

Hinckley Rendering Co

Parmenter&Polsey Fert.Co. Swift's Lowell Fert. Co

Animal Meal.

Beach's Meat and Bone Meal

Bowker's Animal Meal

Bradley's Superior Meat Meal

Bone and Meat .Meal

Meat Meal

Swift's Lowell Bone and Meat Meal

Beef Scraps.

Armour's Beef Scraps j Armour Co

Beef Scraps Am. Agr. Chem. Co

Breck's Ground Beef Scraps

Ground Beef Scraps

Beef Scraps

Swift's Lowell Beef Scraps

Pure Beef Scraps

12 12 17 17 12 15 24.

9. 17. 11. 20 22

8.25

26 30. 30. 35.

Bone Meal.

Beach Soap Co

Hinckley Rendering Co — Hinckley Rendering Co...

Swift's Lowell Fert. Co

Whitman & Pratt Rend. Co,

Beach's Cracked Bone Beach Soap Co

Marsh's Pure Bone Meal George E. Marsh & Co.

40.

55 40 50 40 40 40 40 35

26

14.40	3.50
31.00	10
10.69	3.4
12.64	3.50
10.81
11.06	3.
11.50	3.
17.19	5.50
17.19	5.5(1,
12.12	4.
15.69	3.
23.69	8.
16 94	3. 1
17.20	6.
10.81	3. i
17.72	3.
17.11	4.
8.94	2.25
34.40	10.
36.62	6.
34.93	8.
43.17	8.
39.40	,
35.53	8.
49.14	12
46.42	15
40.56!	15
38.691	20
33.08	10
31.32	10
41.59	15.
40.98	10.
23.26	6.
14.13

3.97 9.68 3.62 3.92 8.19 3.19 3.31 6.75 6.16 4.19 5.71 6.37 4.81 5.65 2.65 5.79; 6.29 3.62

11.70 11.62 13.22 13.39 13.04 17.53

29.4

15.38

17.5

16.50

12.11

18.20

14.94

13.40

$1.75 3.00 2.50 1.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 1.76 1.86 2.00 1.70 2.90 2.60 1.75 2.00 1.80 1.76 2.25

2.76 2.00 2.25 3.00 2.00 2.00

3.00 2.25 2.50 2.40 2.50 2.45 2.75 2 50

3.44 10.371

2.00 2.00

* Sunflower seeds and cracked bone.

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