INSPECTION OF CONCENTRATED COMMERCIAL 



FEEDING STUFFS DURING THE 



SPRING OF 1900.* 



W. H. Jordan and C. Gt. Jenteb. 



FEEDING STUFFS LEGISLATION. 



The Legislature of New York at its session of 1899 enacted a 

 law having for its purpose the regulation of the sale and inspec- 

 tion of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs. This law con- 

 stitutes chapter 510, Laws of 1899, which amends chapfter 338, 

 Laws of 1893. In order to make moire clear one of its provisions 

 it has been since amended, as per chapter 79, Laws of 1900. 



REASONS FOR SUCH LEGISLATION. 



The primary occasion for such legislation is the introduction 

 into our markets of a great number of by-products from various 

 manufacturing processes which are more or less useful and valu- 

 able for feeding farm animals, such as the oil meals, wastes from 

 the manufacture of starch and glucose, brewers' residues, by- 

 products from the preparation of breakfast foods and the offals 

 from the milling of wheat, rye and buckwheat. 



Such materials differ widely in composition and nutritive value, 

 a fact which takes on great significance when we learn that these 

 feeding stuffs are not always sold under their correct names and 

 that the inferior ones are often used to adulterate those of a high 

 grade in a way not easily detected. The cheapening of cotton- 

 seed meal by grinding into it a proportion of hulls, the mixing of 

 gluten products with com meal, the extensive adulteration of 

 mixed feeds with oat hulls and of wheat bran with corn cobs 



* Reprint of Bulletin No. 176. 



