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By releiTiug to the law, you will find thut corn cobs cuu onJy be 

 mixed with corn products, such as corn meal, hominy and gluten. 

 In our work for the year, we have not found any corn cobs mixed 

 with gluten. We have found one firm mixing corn cobs with hominy 

 feed and another firm manufactures a feed, using corn on the ear and 

 hominy, but the fiber in this feed has been kept at about 10 per cent, 

 as the law requires, except in two samples, and in these cases your 

 Secretary ordered prosecution. We secured conviction in both cases 

 and the fine of |50.00 and costs were paid, which were covered into 

 the State Treasury. 



Oat hulls are a common mixture with feed, but the law says that 

 if used, they must be so stated in the composition, and that the fiber 

 content of said feed shall not exceed more than 9 per cent, with a 

 variation of 10 per cent, of the 9 per cent, which would make 9.90 

 per cent. We have had some trouble with the manufacturers who 

 are using oat hulls in a mixture, to keep their fiber near the amount 

 stated. Thev claimed that thev had old goods on the market of 

 Pennsylvania, and that we had secured samples of this. They also 

 claimed that the}^ had trouble in mixing their goods to comply with 

 the law. After a few prosecutions were brought, this firm placed 

 on our markets feeds that now comply with the law. One firm indi- 

 cated that they were going to withdraw their goods from our mar- 

 kets, and this is a matter which they will have to decide for them- 

 selves. 



The great trouble during the year that we have had to contend 

 with, has been the molasses feeds that were found upon the markets 

 of Pennsylvania. The law prohibits the mixing of weed seeds with 

 any feeds sold in our State. A number of manufacturers of molasses 

 feeds persisted in mixing all kinds of weed seeds in their feeds. Their 

 attention was called to these violations, but they still continued to 

 mix weed seeds with their feeds. The Secretary directed prosecu- 

 tion against the said firms, and we have secured conviction in each 

 case, and we believe that we will be able by constantly looking after 

 the matter to prohibit the mixing of weed seeds with any concen- 

 trated commercial feeds sold in our State. We think it is time 

 that some of the Eastern states that are consumers of feeds as we 

 are, would endeavor to have passed a law similar to our own. The 

 Pure Food Law protects the human race, and we as men should 

 protect the animals that cannot say what they will eat, but have to 

 eat what is given them or do without. There should be more educa- 

 tion on this subject. Six years ago, there was very little known about 

 the analysis of feeds, in fact, very few knew what protein and fat 

 were, and it was only four years ago that we had written in the law, 

 directing the manufacturer should give the analysis for fiber. The 

 question came up at once, What had fiber to do with the foods? But 

 you are all coming to find out. 



I do not wish to criticize any of the educational departments of our 

 State, but I was very sorry to see that at the last Farmers' Week 

 at State college, there was not one person on the program to give any 

 instruction on commercial feeds, and in looking over the list of lec- 

 turers at Farmers' Institutes I can only find one who was scheduled 

 to talk on this great subject. I believe the question is important 

 enough to the farmers and dairymen of Pennsylvania to have some 

 one on each sectjoD of the Farmers' Institute force that could or 



