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Those who find it necessary to purchase feeding stuffs should 

 remember that thej will largely determine the extent to which 

 the law is obeyed. If they refuse to buy goods not properly 

 marked or for which no guaranteed analysis can be furnished, 

 dealers will not handle such, and when dealers refuse to handle 

 a particular brand the manufacturer will be obliged to comply 

 wth the law if he protects the interests of his business. It would 

 be difficult at the present time to sell unmarked fertilizers in. 

 New York and the same condition may be made to prevail in the 

 feeding stuffs trade. 



It will certainly be the effort of the Experiment Station to give 

 proper support to those manufacturers who meet the situation 

 squarely and to warn dealers and consumers against purchasing 

 materials, the character and composition of which the manu- 

 facturers are not ready to declare. The payment of the license 

 fee is a matter to be settled between the dealers and the manu- 

 facturers. While the retail dealer is the liable party, especially 

 .in selling goods coming from without the State, it is certainly in 

 the interests of convenience and economy for a single party, 

 either the manufacturer or importer, to pay the fee once for all 

 and thus prevent each and every dealer from being liable to this 

 payment. 



POLICY OF ENFORCEMENT. 



It is generally conceded that the object of law is to secure 

 proper conditions in those matters to which law pertains. In 

 this particular case the object is to aid in promoting honesty and 

 intelligence in the cattle food trade. It is believed that this 

 result can best be reached by educational methods, reserving 

 penalties for those cases of persistently willful and dishonest vio- 

 lation of the reasonable requirements which the law imposes. 

 To drive an unscrupulous manufacturer or dealer out of his dis- 

 honest practices is the main good to reach and if this can be 

 done without an appeal to the courts it is really better then to 

 resort to litigation. It has been found in fertilizer inspection; 

 that the desire to stand well in the published results of inspec- 

 tion is an important factor in causing a careful attention to legal 



