410 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ofif. Doc. 



EEPOKT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FEEDING STUFFS 



By GEORGE G. HUTCHISON, Vhuimuni 



To the Honorable Members of the State Board of Agriculture: 



As your Chairman of Committee on Concentrated Commercial 

 Feeding Stuffs, I beg leave to make you the following report for 

 the year 1910: 



With our new law that was placed upon the statute books by the 

 last Legislature, which went into effect August 1st, 1909, we were 

 in a position to proceed with our work with new courage. As stated 

 to you in our last report, the old law was declared unconstitutional 

 by Judge Tressler of Lehigh county. Our determination was to 

 rid the State as far as possible of all feeds that were adulterated 

 and falsely guaranteed. I hope to show you in this report that we 

 have been in a measure successful, and that we have entered upon 

 an epoch in the control of the sale of Concentrated Commercial feeds 

 in Pennsylvania. 



I would first call your attention to the condition that exists among 

 the millers in our own State. Before the passage of a Feeding Stuff 

 Law, a large number of them bought adulterants to adulterate their 

 feeds, but at the present time, the majority of them are grinding 

 whole grains, that is, corn, oats and rye. They do not compound 

 or mix to any great extent. Eather, they buy their concentrated 

 feeds from the large manufacturers in the West and sell them as they 

 are received. The millers of our State still pursue the old practice 

 of grinding ear corn, but this is not considered as good a feed as it 

 was in former years, as hogs will not eat the chop which contains 

 corn cobs unless thev are ground verv fine. I do not want to lead 

 you to believe that our millers in Pennsylvania are perfect, but they 

 are doing a business that is nearer the honest dealer than they did 

 in the past. Our great supply of commercial feeds comes from Ohio, 

 Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas and other Western 

 states. Each has a by-product to sell. As we are the great market 

 for feeds, they are all busy looking after their interests, and in this, 

 I do not blame them, if they will give our farmers and stock feeders 

 the worth of their money. The business of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, through its Secretary and his agents, is to see that this is 

 done. The feeds sold in Pennsylvania showed a marked improve- 

 ment. 



As stated in my previous report, / am still advocating the doctrine 

 that all feeds should te sold on their protein and fat value amd 

 their low fiher constituency, or the higJier tJie protein and fat and 

 the lower the crude fiber, the more valuable the feed. 



