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It is proper for the interested public to know that the total 

 income to the State from license fees on concentrated feeding 

 stuffs for the year 1900 will not exceed |2,600, which can neither 

 be a burdensome tax upon a business that involves hundreds of 

 thousands of tone of material, nor a large sum of mtoney with 

 which to inspect these goods. 



Objection has been made to the guaranteeing of the analysis 

 of by-product commercial feeding stuffs on the ground that 

 because of natural variations in the grains from which they are 

 made their composition is not uniform. The answer to this is, 

 •that while the proportions of protein and fat in the unmixed 

 by-products do vary within certain limits, there are minima that 

 may be used as the guarantees below which these percentages 

 rarely fall. In the mixed feeds containing several components 

 the composition is in the control of the manufacturer. Moreover, 

 it is expected that in this particular common sense will prevail 

 in the execution of inspection laws. It is possible to so adminis- 

 ter affairs that only willful violators of the law will feel its 

 force. Similar provisions relative to fertilizers have been in 

 force in some states for over twenty-five years; and honest manu- 

 facturers and dealers, while sometimes inconvenienced, have 

 suffered no hardships therefrom. 



COMPLIAXCB WITH THE LAW, 



It is probably too early to reach any conclusions as to how 

 fully it will be possible to secure compliance with this new law. 

 Already, so far as known, the manufacturers of the leading 

 brands of commercial feeding stuffs have met its provisions. 

 Doubtless some local mills and perhaps other parties are still 

 doing an illegal business. In the single inspection which has so 

 far been instituted, it has not been possibl.e to reach every por- 

 tion of the State and so some goods have up to this time escaped 

 attention. Ultimately, however, cases of violation will be 

 reached and they will then be treated as good judgment seems 

 to indicate. 



