No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGUICULTURB. 47 



CATTLE-FOOD CONTROL. 



The woik (vf (he sampling :uid analysis of cattle-feeds, under the 

 act of the Legislature of 1901, was begun this year, and the result;! 

 are now ready for publication. 



That part of the act regulating the work of the Department and 

 prescribing the branding and analysis required, is printed in this 

 report for information and is as follows: 



"Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That every lot or parcel of any con 

 centrated commercial feeding stuff, as defined in section two of this 

 act, used for feeding domestic animals, sold, offered or exposed for 

 sale within this State, shall have affixed thereto, in a conspicuous 

 place on the outside thereof, a legible and plainly printed state- 

 ment clearly and truly certifying the number of net pounds of feed- 

 ing stuff contained therein; the name, brand or trade mark under 

 which the article is sold; the name and address of the manufacturer 

 or importer, and a statement of the percentage it contaios of crude 

 fat and of crude protein, both constituents to be determined by the 

 methods adopted at the time by the Association of Official Agricul- 

 tural Chemists of the United States. Whenever any concentrated 

 commercial feeding stuff is sold at retail, in bulk, or in sacks belong- 

 ing to the purchaser, the agent or dealer, upon request of the pur- 

 chaser, shall fuinish to him the certified statenu»nt named in this 

 section. 



"Section 2. Th{^ term 'concentrated commercial feeding stuff's,' as 

 used in this act, sliall i^iclude linseed meals, cottonseed meals, glu- 

 ten meals, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar feeds, dried brewers' 

 grains, malt sprouts, hominy foods, cerealine feeds, rice meals, 

 ground beef or fish scraps, and all other materials of similar nature, 

 but shall not include hays and straws, the grinding together of jmre 

 whole grains, nor tlie unmixed meals made directly from the entire 

 grains of wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat, or broom 

 corn; neither shall it include wheat, rve or buckwheat bran, or mid- 

 dlings not mixed with other substances, and sold separately as 

 distinct articles of commerce. 



"Section 3. No foreign mineral substance, nor substance injurious 

 to the health of domestic animals, shall be mixed with any feeding 

 stuff sold, or offered, or exposed for sale in this State. 



"Section 4. Each and every manufacturer, importer, agent or seller 

 of any concentrated feeding stuff shall, upon request, file in the office 



