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of protein it would be necessary to add lai'ge quantities of goods 

 like linseed meal rich in protein. As seen from the analyses 

 Blatchford's calf meal has a feeding value somewhat inferior to 

 old process linseed meal. Whatever it may cost to manufacture, 

 no man who has sufficient intelligence to mix feeds can afford to 

 buy it at anything like the price asked." 



In the light of this information the farmers of ISTew York must 

 decide whether they can afford to pay at the rate of $100 per ton 

 for materials no more valuable than those which are generally 

 offered in our markets at ordinary prices. Special mention is made 

 of this feed because it is sold for distinctively food purposes and 

 because, prices considered, it perhaps does the farmer's pocket- 

 book as little harm as any other food mentioned in the above 

 list, and less than all excepting ISTo. 462. At the same time it 

 typifies all those efforts here discussed of mixing common ma- 

 terials and selling them under extraordinary names at extraordinary 

 prices. 



co:ncentrated feeding stuffs law. 



Laws of ISTew York^ Chap. 510. 



AIST ACT to amend the agricultural law, regulating the sale and 

 analysis of concentrated feeding stuffs. 



Became a law May 3, 1899, mth the approval of the Governor. 

 Passed, three-fifths being present. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate am^d 

 Assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. Chapter three hundred and thirty-eight of th^ laws 

 of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled, " An act in rela- 

 tion to agiiculture, constituting articles one, two, three, four and 



five of chapter thirty-three of the general laws," is hereby amended 

 by adding at the end thereof a new article to be known as article 



nine, and to read as follows: 



