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Chop is a ground or chop feed composed of one or more different cereals 

 or by-products thereof. If it bears a name descriptive of the kind of 

 cereals it must be made exclusively of the entire grains of those cereals. 



Screenings are the smaller imperfect grains, weed seeds, and other 

 foreign material having feeding value, separated in cleaning the grain. 



The following definition for cotton-seed feed has been adopted by the 

 Board of Agriculture, but is not included in the list of definitions of 

 the Association of Feed Control Officials: 



Cotton-seed Feed. All mixtures of cotton-seed meal and hulls con- 

 taining less than 38.62 per cent protein shall be branded Cotton-seed 

 Feed, or a name may be given which does not contain the word "meal" 

 or any other word that might be misleading. 



HEARINGS. 



When a sample of commercial feed examined shows variation from 

 the guarantees, the dealer or manufacturer from whom the sample was 

 taken shall be given an opportunity to be heard in his defense by the 

 Commissioner before the facts may be certified to the proper prosecuting 

 attorney. 



It is the duty of the Department of Agriculture to regularly inspect 

 the feeds offered for sale in the State and to see that all feeds bear the 

 tax stamp and are properly labeled. The Department is required to col- 

 lect and analyze at least one sample of every brand of feed found on sale 

 in the State during the year and to publish the results for the benefit of 

 itioso interested in this class of goods. 



The Department will be glad, at any time, to furnish information re- 

 garding the character and value of any class of feed. 



RESULTS OF THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE FEED LAW. 



The first feed law in North Carolina went into effect in July, 1903. 

 At that time it was found that the markets of the State were flooded 

 with low-grade and adulterated feeds, with no branding on the bag to 

 indicate that they were made of anything but high-grade materials. 

 Such materials as rice chaff, ground conrcobs, peanut hulls, oat hulls, 

 etc., with very little feeding value and now classed as adulterants, were 

 used extensively in the composition of feeds. 



Since the first law went into effect the Department has made frequent 

 inspections each year in all parts of the State, and wherever adulter- 

 ated or misbranded feeds have been found they have been withdrawn 

 from sale. The result of this work has been the steady decrease, from 

 year to year, in the number of adulterated feeds on the market, and the 

 steady increase in the quality of the feeds of all classes. 



With the publication of this, the tenth report on feeds, it will be 

 noticed that there are comparatively few cases of adulteration reported. 

 Following each table of analyses will be found a statement of the num- 

 ber of samples which fail to come up to the manufacturer's guarantee. 

 While this number is comparatively large in some classes of feeds it 

 will be noticed that in the majority of cases the difference between the 

 guarantee and the analysis is comparatively small. This trouble is due 



