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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Off. Doc. 



POUNDS OF PROTEIN AND FAT OBTAINED IN FEEDING 



STUFFS FOR ONE DOLLAR, AT CURRENT 



RETAIL PRICES^Coutinued. 



Name of Feeding Stuff. 



Class 3 (14 Per Cent.-20 Per Cent. Protein) 



Protena dairy feed 



Plel Brothers' gluten feed 



Sucrene dairy feed 



Wheat middlings, 



Low grade flour 



Prlmo Hercules horse feed, 



Mixed feed: Wheat by-products 



Wheat bran 



Three star molasses grains 



Mueller's molasses grains 



Primo peerless hog feed 



Hammond dairy feed 



Red cow dairy feed 



They also visited a number of cities and towns in tlie different 

 counties, at which points they did not take samples, as they had 

 taken samples of the goods they found at the different feed stores 

 at other points in the said counties. This will show to you the 

 effort that the Department has put forth to secure samples of feeds 

 throughout the Commonwealth, These agents distributed copies of 

 the law to each dealer and gave him what information they could 

 to help him sell the goods in the proper manner. 



I have a full list of the cities and towns visited by myself and the 

 agents, but this would take up too much of your valuable time. 



The question that comes up in your minds, is, what do you find 

 and what are the feed conditions in Pennsylvania? This, I will 

 try and answer. Science has done great things for the farmers of 

 Pennsylvania. Through our Experimental Station at State College, 

 through our bulletins that are issued by the Department of Agri- 

 culture of Pennsylvania and by the Department of Agriculture of 

 the United States, through their different Experimental iStations, 

 the farmer has been taught to care for his stock, grow better crops, 

 care for his land, make better butter, grow better fruit, combat with 

 his insect pests, and in a number of other ways, he has been taught 

 to extend his business; but while he is being taught these things 

 by science, science is also teaching men the way to defraud the 

 farmer and stock feeder. We have on our markets the various 

 molasses feeds which cover up the different adulterants that enter 

 into these feeds. Along this line. First Assistant Chemist, Mr. 

 Kellogg, has prepared an exhibit of the different kinds of 

 adulterants: 



