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grain, such as corn, oats, rye, barley or any of the cereals is all 

 right, but the moment that there is any mixture goes into it, such 

 as bran or middlings or corn-cob meal or oat meal or any of those 

 by-products from the oat meal manufacturers from the great State 

 of Ohio, then the law lays its strong hand on the manufacturer, 

 unless the packages show clearly what they contain. The law says 

 that they shall give the amount of protein and the amount of fat 

 that is in the chop or meal, whatever it may be. 



The CHAIRMAN: Suppose the analysis is not placed on the 

 back; how are we to proceed? 



MR. HUTCHISON: I will t^ke, for instance, the manufactory 

 known as The American Cereal Company, in Chicago. Their manu- 

 factory is in Chicago and they have different mills throughout the 

 United States. Now, if they put up a mixture they will have it 

 analyzed, or should have it analyzed, and place it on the back of the 

 sack the analysis, giving the protein and the fat, as I said before. 

 They allow them in this State to place a tag on. They have a tag 

 placed on the sack in place of the analysis being stamped on. The 

 Secretary allows them to place a tag on with this analysis on it. 

 I will say for the people who manufacture goods out of the State, 

 the majority of them have the analysis on. I cannot say that the 

 analysis that is found in the last bulletin compares exactly or that 

 it comes up to the analysis that you see on the sack or bag. That is 

 the mattei that the Secretary is considering now, I believe about 

 bringing suit against some of these people who are not complying 

 with the law. 



Send to the Department of Agriculture and they will mail you 

 Bulletin 122. I want you all to send for this bulletin; it will give 

 you a great deal of information on this subject. If you want more 

 information, send for Bulletin 87; that is a larger bulletin and gives 

 some of the percentages. Those interested in the value of different 

 feeding stuffs should send for it. 



PROF. WATTS: I would like to hear from Mr. Agee. I think 

 he has had the most experience in institute work. We have had a 

 great deal of valuable discussion during this hour and I would like 

 to have Mr. Agee tell us what his idea is of the best way to run an 

 institute from beginning to end. How an institute should be con- 

 ducted, just a sentence or two on each point. I think he can do 

 that; let us have that. 



The CHAIRMAN: We should be pleased to hear from Mr. Agee. 



MR. AGEE: If that subject had been given to me an hour ago, 

 with the intimation that I was expected to spend five minutes upon 



