RECENT AMERICAN WORK (►N FEEDING STUFFS. 531 



concentrated feeding stutis in 11>(»1, which went into effect Diecenil)er 

 1 of that year. The law recjuires that each manufacturer, importer, 

 agent, or seller of any concentrated commercial feeding stuff' shall 

 pa}^ annually to the State a license fee of !j^20. The secretary of the 

 State lK)ard of agriculture i.s instructed to have analyses of the feeding 

 stuff's offered for sale made at the State station. Selling or attempt- 

 ing to sell any commercial feeding stuff' without complying with the 

 requirements is punisha))le by a tine of not more than !i^lOO for the 

 first offense and not more than $200 for each subsequent offense. 

 "Any person who shall adulterate any kind of meal or ground giain 

 with milling or manufacturing offals, or any other substance what- 

 ever, for the purpose of sale," without stating the fact |)hiinly, or 

 who shall sell, or attempt to dispose of such goods, unless their true 

 character is indicated, shall be tined not less than ^25 nor more than 

 $100 for each offense. The carrying out of the provisions of the law 

 is intrusted to the State l)oard of agriculture, acting through its secre- 

 tary, and the State experiment sttition. 



For a time the Tennessee Station conducted an inspection of cotton- 

 seed meals, though such inspection has not been required by State law. 



In all the States having feeding stuff control laws publications are 

 issued from time to time, giving the text of the laws and results of 

 analyses of feeding stuffs, lists of feeding stuffs on sale with guaran- 

 teed composition, and similar data. In those States in which the 

 carrying on of the laws is intrusted to the experiment stations, these 

 publications are issued as station bulletins or are included in the aimual 

 reports. 



In general it maj' be said that the laws providing for feeding-stuff' 

 inspection have accomplished a great amount of good in diminishing 

 the sale of worthless materials, instructing the people in regard to the 

 composition of feeding stuffs and their comparative value, and at the 

 same time promoting the interests of honest manufacturers and dealers. 



ADULTERATION OF FEEDING STUFFS. 



The inspection work carried on in the United States necessarily 

 involves the examination of feeding stuffs with a view to the detection 

 of adulteration or sophistication, and, as has been i)reviously noted, 

 such legislation has in general residted in the sale of concentrated 

 feeds which are free from adulteration in States with a feeding-stuff' 

 law. 



In a recent pul)lication of the New Jersey Stations, L. A. Voorhees 

 and .). V. Street ** descril)ed two materials which are new adulterants 

 in the New Jersey fe(^d markets. One consisted of the hard, flinty 

 hulls of the rice grain and has been sold under the misleading name 



a New .Tprnov Sta.'J. Bill. IHO. 



