MAIXK AGRICULTURAL KXPERIMENT STATION. I913. II 



anteed weight ; and there must be constant watch for old, shop- 

 worn and damaged goods. 



The fertiUzer inspection must of necessity be carried O'l 

 almost entirely during the early spring months just before thai 

 commodity is used by the farmers. While a large amount of 

 fertilizer comes intb the state during the fall and winter and 

 is stored in large warehouses, more and more is being shipped 

 into the state by rail and directly to the points of consumption 

 so that the collection of samples of the various brands becomes 

 more and more difficult and involves a larger expenditure of 

 time and money each year. 



The feeding stuffs inspection comes naturally during the fall 

 and winter months when commercial feeding stuffs are most in 

 use. This work also increases year by year as the consumption 

 of commercial cattle feeds increases. The importance of this 

 inspection becomes more and more apparent as the number of 

 compounded feeding stuffs on sale increases. The tendency to 

 use waste and inferior materials, screenings, chaff, oat clip- 

 pings, hulls, cob meal, and other low grade materials, is ever 

 increasing and the importance of having such compounds 

 marked plainly so that the consumer may know exactly what 

 he is getting is, of course, apparent. 



The inspection of agricultural seeds also comes during the 

 spring months just before the seed is placed in the ground. A 

 comparatively few samples of seeds are actually analyzed, be- 

 cause the seed analyst himself does the actual work of inspec- 

 tion and no samples are taken unless the appearance of the 

 goods indicates that the guarantees accompanying it may be 

 too high, or for some other reason there is cause for suspicion. 



The insecticides and fungicides inspected include all classes 

 of materials which are used to destroy, repel, or mitigate in 

 any way insect and fungus pests. The requirements of the 

 insecticide and fungicide law are more recent than the other 

 inspection laws of the State, but the importance of the work is 

 already evident. 



The inspection of foods and drugs goes on constantly 

 throughout the year, and the number of samples collected does 

 not represent in the least either the importance of the work or 

 the scope of the ground covered by the deputies. 



The importance of manufacturing, storing and dispensing 

 food materials under sanitary conditions is just being realized 



