10 The Bulletin, 



largely to Ihe nianufaeturers not adhering close enough to the chemical 

 analyses of their products in making up the guarantees for them. 



The present law requires the statement on the hag or tag of the 

 ingredients of which the feed is composed. Several seizures have been 

 made during the year on account of this requirement not being complied 

 with. These have been principally mixed feeds composed of Avheat and 

 corn products which were not properly branded, and poultry feeds sold 

 under a trade name without a statement of the ingredients. In all 

 such cases the feeds have been Avithdrawn from sale until the manu- 

 facturer furnished the dealer with properly printed tags showing the 

 ingredients of which the feed was composed. 



The most serious violation of the law during the year was with one 

 shipment of wheat Bran, shipped into the State from Tennessee. This 

 shipment of bran was found to be seriously affected with wheat smut, 

 which rendered the bran injurious to animals. The sale of this lot of 

 bran was prohibited and when the manufacturers made proper adjust- 

 ments with the dealer they were allowed to ship it out of the State. 



Several lots of poultry^ feeds have been found which contained con- 

 siderable quantities of corn cockle seed, which are considered to be 

 poisonous to stock and poultry. Such feeds are not allowed to be sold 

 in the State. 



As the result of the strict enforcement of the Feed Law the feeds on 

 sale in the State are, as a whole, a very clean grade of products with 

 ^comparatively little adulteration. 



PURCHASING FEEDS. 



The selection of the proper feeds for different animals is a much more 

 important matter than it is usually considered by the average purchaser 

 and should receive careful attention. The high prices of feeds have 

 created a market for a variety of low grade feeds that otherwise would 

 not have found a market. Such feeds frequently sell for a compara- 

 tively low price, but it is seldom economical to buy them. The number 

 of different feeds now offered for sale in the State affords the purchaser 

 a wide range of products from which to select. The purchaser should 

 first ascertain if the feeds he is considering buying are unadulterated 

 and come up to the guarantees which are claimed for them. When this 

 is done the selection of a feed should be governed by the relative cost 

 of the different available feeds and by their palatability and nutritive 



The average composition of the various products used for feeds will 

 be found under the description of the different products. The analyses 

 of the different brands will be found in the tables compared with the 

 guarantees which the manufacturers . make for them. The chemical 

 analysis shoAvs the total amounts of the various nutrients; not all of the 

 total amounts shown by such analyses are digestible and the purchaser 

 should inform himself as to the relative digestibility of the different 

 feeds While it is not within the range of this bulletin to give a discus- 

 sion on the feeding of animals the following table of digestion coeffi- 

 cients is given so that the purchaser may get a general idea of the diges- 

 tibility of the feeds usually found on the markets. 



