No. 7 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 411 



To section 1 there was added a proviso, as follows: 

 "That when any manufacturer or purchaser, located within the 

 State of Pennsylvania, of any bran or middlings, or mixture thereof, 

 or of any concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as defined in 

 'section two of this Act, shall send samples of the same to the 

 Secretary of Agriculture for analysis, the chemist of the Depart- 

 ment shall furnish such analysis, showing the percentage of crude 

 protein, fat and fiber which it contains, and shall charge a fee of 

 fl.OO for each such sample which analysis shall be made within ten 

 days after the sample is neceived by the chemist, and all moneys 

 so received shall, from time to time, be covered into the State 

 Tl*easury.'' 



Under this provision there have been received by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and analyzed by the chemist, 535 samples. 

 Reports of the analysis have been furnished to the person or persons 

 who sent in the said samples. This has been the means of giving 

 information to our feed manufacturers, dealers and purchasiers, 

 w^hich have been of great value to them. There may be a question 

 arise in your minds why it was necessary to charge a fee of |1.00. 

 This fee is charged so that the Laboratory will not be over-run with 

 this kind of work, as it places a restriction on the number of samples 

 that w^ould be sent in, and persons would send in samples through 

 curiosity and the results would be of no material benefit to them. 

 The fee does not pay for the work performed. 



REPORT SHOWING THE COMPARISON OF PURE FEEDS 

 WITH THOSE WHICH ARE ADULTERATED. 



During the past year a large number of feeds which have been 

 found for sale on the market in Pennsylvania, have been examined 

 in this Department. They have been analyzed chemically to 

 determine the protein, fat and fiber content, and they have been 

 examined microscopically to find out whether the composition of 

 the feed was as certified, or as a pure feed should be, or whether 

 foreign or inferior products had been added to cheapen them, and 

 thus defraud the consumer and violate the Feeding Stuff Law. 



Many of the feeds examined were found to be below the normal 

 and certified composition and to be adulterated with inferior by- 

 products and ingredients which were not only vastly cheaper than 

 the pure article, but which were deficient in feeding value to such 

 an extent that the stock fed on the same would fail to get proper 

 nourishment, and in some instances the health of the animal would 

 be in jeopardy. 



It is the purport of this paper to show to what an extent the law 

 is violated and to illustrate the manner in which some of the feeds 

 sold in this State are adulterated. 



A few of the principal feeds of average composition have been 

 prepared, together with sonie of the same found adulterated or 

 cheapened, and also the adulterants as indicated by the accompany- 

 ing table and samples. It is unnecessary to enter into a lengthy 

 discussion concerning these feeds and their manufacture, as that 

 is well known, but it is of importance that a few inferior articles 

 should be compared with those of standard composition and your 

 attention called to the fact that some goods of inferior quality are 

 for sale in Pennsylvania. 



