No. 7. DKP^\-R1MENT OF AGRICULTURE. 13 



year over three tliousaud dollars (.f.3,000) was receh'ed iu fines and 

 two hundred and fifty-six dollars (|20G.()0) in fees for the analysis 

 of special samples, was received and covered into the State Treasury. 



In cases where feeds were found to be adulterated, the principal 

 adulterants detected were ground corn cobs, peanut hulls, rice hulls 

 and weed seeds. Many wheat products were found adulterated with 

 approximately 20 per cent, of ground corn cobs. In these feeds, 

 therefore, it was found that two hundred pounds of ground corn 

 cobs, in every ton, which can be purchased for a nominal price, were 

 being sold at the rate of from |28 to P4 per ton. 



In some cases wheat screenings were finely ground and sold for lin- 

 seed oil meal. Pure linseed oil meal sells for approximately $40 a 

 ton, and it is readily seen that ground weed seeds, worth very much 

 less than |40 a ton, when sold as pure oil meal, is a flagrant case 

 of fraud. Violations of this nature have been greatly decreased, 

 and in time it is hoped that they will be entirely prevented. 



It is inexpedient to enter into a detailed statement or exhibit of 

 violations discovered, in this report, as this information is given 

 in the puliliKhed bulletin on feeding stuffs, in which the analysis, to- 

 gether with other information will be found. 



The feeds examined were found to be, generally, of good quality 

 and the law was violated to a much less extent than during the 

 previous year. The majority of dealers and manufacturers both 

 within and without the State showed a hearty spirit of co-operation 

 with the work of the Department, and a disposition to live up to 

 the requirements of the law. We have reason to believe from our 

 correspondence, that the Feeding Stuff Law in this State is one of 

 the best laws of its kind in the country. In an attempt to make a 

 uniform feed law in the United States, the manufacturers of feeds, 

 together with the chemists from nearly all of the states, met in con- 

 vention recently in Chicago and incorporated in their preliminary 

 bill or law, a large portion of the Pennsylvania Feeding Stuff Law. 

 This is indicative of the headway we are making in this State and 

 of the important work which is being done in this Department. Our 

 local feed dealers and manufacturers who, as a general rule, are 

 doing a legitimate business, are earnest in their desire to assist the 

 Department in the work it is doing to prevent the sale of undesir- 

 able and adulterated feeds in Pennsylvania. Some of them have 

 stated a desire for a still more stringent law. 



In carrying out the provisions of the Paris Green Law, 400 samples 

 were collected by our agent having charge of this work, from deal- 

 ers and manufacturers doing business in the State. Except in a few 

 cases, the samples examined were found to be of good quality and 

 to be in compliance with the standard of purity specified in the 

 law. A large proportion of the samples taken were found to be not 

 properly labeled and guaranteed, but in every case, the parties con- 

 cerned when notified, were found willing to comply with the require- 

 ments of the law and to label their goods accordingly. 



In cases where it is found that the law is not complied with, the 

 Act of Assembly provides that the Secretary of Agriculture shall 

 report the facts to the District Attorney of the county in which the 

 violations occur. This was done in every case where the goods ex- 

 amined did not come up to the standard of purity required by law. 



