No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 423 



The number of violations of the Feeding Stuff Law was sixty. We 

 have secured convictions in all of these cases but one, and that case 

 has been appealed to court and will be tried at the March term in 

 the Centre County Court. In the hearings of these cases before the 

 courts, there never has come up a question in the argument of the 

 attorneys for the defense in regard to the constitutionality of the 

 law, and I am led to believe, from the information I received from the 

 attorneys, that our law is a good one and well drawn. The Secre- 

 tary has been very anxious that our law should not be the means of 

 prosecution, that we should endeavor to educate and inform the 

 manufacturers of concentrated feeds of the meaning of the law and 

 have them comply with the law without bringing more prosecutions 

 than is necessary. The men who are engaged in the sale of feeds 

 throughout Pennsylvania are reputable citizens, engaged in legiti- 

 mate business, and our experience with them is that they are anxious 

 to handle pure feed and give their customers a fair return for their 

 money. 



I would like to call your attention to one instance where a large 

 firm in the West, that for years handled large quantities of 

 mixed feeds, that have placed upon the market feed running 

 very high in protein, high in fat and low in fiber, and they are 

 endeavoring to have their customers buy this feed. They claim that 

 it is more profitable to buy a feed high in protein and fat and low 

 in fiber than to buy the low grade feeds that were formerly on the 

 market. 



There is another section of this law that we are pleased to state 

 the manufacturers or importers of feeding stuffs are complying with, 

 and that is, that u])on the request of the Department they shall file 

 a registration, giving the analysis and composition of their feeds. We 

 have received 378 registrations for the sale of commercial feeds in 

 Pennsylvania, representing over 1200 brands. Many brands were 

 alike in their composition, such as wheat by-products, distillers' and 

 brewers' by-products and whole grain feeds. 



OUR NEEDS 



I would like to call your attention to some of our needs for the 

 proper enforcement of this law. . The work has so grown and the 

 large number of feed products placed upon our markets has become 

 enormous, and it is impossible for one sampling agent to visit all 

 the feeding stuff stores in Pennsylvania once a year, and we find that 

 a visit should be made at least twice a year to each dealer, if pos- 

 sible. Therefore, we need money to employ one more sampling agent. 



We also need in the office one clerk who should be a stenographer 

 and also able to keep books, as each sample that is taken by the 

 agent means just a given amount of work in the office. There must 

 be records kept of these samples, and after they are analyzed, re- 

 ports of the analysis must be made to the Secretary, to the dealer, 

 to the manufacturer, and one to be kept on file in the office. Thus 

 you will see that 2,000 samples taken, means eight to ten thousand 

 reports to be made of each sample. We also sent out 6500 bulletins 

 and a large number of copies of the law. This all requires clerical 

 work besides the thousands of letters that come to the Department 

 requiring answers. We have grown from a very small beginning to 

 ^ ^Vireau of no small means. I have endeavored in the short space 



