418 Report of Inspection Work of the 



trade brands and guaranteed composition at the Experiment 

 Station, and the annual inspection by State officials. 



It will be noticed that this law is quite similar in its proivisions 

 to th-e fertilizer laws which have been in successful operation in 

 many States during the past twenty-five years. It is a recog- 

 nition of the right of every purchaseir of cattle foods to know 

 what he is buying, and of the duty of the manufacturer or dealer 

 to comply with his advertised statements. 



OBJECTIONS TO THE LAW, 



When the New York law was first proposed some interested 

 parties feared that it would be inimical to trade interests. 



It was thought that the license fee would prove to be a finan- 

 cial burden. It was not undeTstood by all that the payment of a 

 single fee by the manufacturers would meet the provisions of the 

 law for the whole State, and that the dealers would probably bear 

 no direct expense whatever. Of course manufacturers, especially 

 those in other States, may refuse to pay this fee, but this wonld 

 be a short sighted policy, as it would most certainly in the end 

 result in shutting their goods out of New York trade. Such a 

 refusal conld not reasonably be based on the claim that this fee 

 ifi a heavy money tax. Even if a manufacturer is putting out 

 not over 100 tons annually, which is rarely the case, the tax per 

 ton would only be 25 cents. In most cases where the output is 

 hundreds and even thousands of tons the added expense of pro- 

 duction is too small to be appreciated. Some of the small millers 

 of the State may regard the license fee and cost of the neces- 

 sary chemical analyses as an expense altogether too large, and 

 it is well to remind all such that if they confine their business to 

 the entire cereal grains, either separate or mixed, and to the 

 ofials from the cereal grains, and refrain from buying oat hulls 

 or other by-products to mix with the ground grains, the law will 

 in no way affect them. If they deal in such standard feeds as 

 the oil meals, gluten products and brewers' residues no fee will 

 be required in most cases, because it generally will be paid by 

 the manufacturer. 



