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Dealers should require that when goods are handled in pack- 

 ages the proper marks are affixed: 



Name and address of manufacturer or jobber. 

 Name of brand. 



Guaranteed percentage of protein. 

 Guaranteed percentage of fat. 



If the goods are bought in bulk, then the manufacturer or 

 jobber should be asked to furnish the same statement for dis- 

 play to customers. This is a simple matter, but it should be 

 attended to in order to avoid any possible chance of action by 

 the State and as a matter of justice to consumers. 



SUGGESTIONS TO CONSUMERS. 



There appears to be a growing tendency on the part of con- 

 sumers to purchase proprietary brands of feeding stuffs that are 

 mixtures of two or more by-products. Many of these mixtures 

 are compounded for the purpose of providing a medium in which 

 inferior waste products lose their identity by mixing them with 

 materials of good and well recognized quality. For instance, 

 an " oat feed " may contain hominy feed, oat hulls and some- 

 times enough of some material rich in protein, perhaps gluten 

 meal, to bring the protein content of the mixture up to a desir- 

 able proportion. Such a mixture is worth commercially what 

 the hominy feed and gluten meal would cost and no more. If 

 20 per ct. of oat hulls are present then the price of the mixtures 

 should be 20 per ct. less than what a full ton of the hominy feed 

 and gluten meal mixture would cost. Oat hull mixtures are 

 not an imposition on the consumer, provided they are sold at a 

 price proportional to the standard materials which the mixtures 

 contain, otherwise they are bought at a loss. As a matter of 

 fact, these mixtures are sold at about the prices which rule for 

 feeding stuffs of standard grade. 



A glance at the previous tables will show the following range 

 of prices: 



