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in Cottonseed Meals, the Dealers were reimbursed by the Manufac- 

 turers on the basis of 50c per unit for each ton of Cottonseed Meal 

 purchased. During the year, 9 cases were adjusted by payment of 

 fines where prosecutions had been ordered in 1913 samples, amount- 

 ing to $450.00. The amount of fines received and paid to the State 

 Treasurer, therefore, during the period covered by this report was 

 $1,050.00. The number of prosecutions ordered during the year was 

 about one-half the number ordered during the previous year which 

 is an indication that the violations are becoming less and less as 

 the work of enforcing the law and educating the Dealers in Feeding 

 Stuffs as to the requirements of the Law, continues. One of the cases 

 adjusted by payment of fine was the one referred to in our previous 

 report as still pending which had been returned to Court by the Mag- 

 istrate. The defendant plead guilty before the Court without the 

 necessity of a trial and paid the fine imposed by the Judge. 



The character of the Feeding Stuffs now being sold in the State 

 as judged from the samples examined during 1914, shows a continued 

 improvement as to branding, labeling and their freedom from unde- 

 sirable by-products. The matter of weed seeds in Chicken Feeds 

 has continued to give us some trouble but the number of violations 

 in this respect are continually decreasing. One large manufacturer 

 of Feeding Stuffs, after considerable controversy and a lengthy hear- 

 ing with the Department Officials, finally agreed to eliminate weed 

 seeds from their products sold in the State without causing this 

 controversy to be adjusted by means of a- lengthy court trial. The 

 promise of this concern to comply with the requirements of the Law 

 in selling clean Poultry Feeds in the State is, therefore, highly pleas- 

 ing as it will make the number of prosecutions less and will also 

 obviate the necessity of continually securing samples of these brands 

 of feeds, making exhaustive tests on such samples and being con- 

 tinually on the watch for weed seeds in these particular brands. 



During the year 286 special samples of Feeding Stuffs were sent 

 to the Department for analysis, as provided for by the Feeding Stuffs 

 Law. These samples were all analyzed for protein, fat and fiber 

 and results reported to the senders as soon as possible. In many 

 cases inquiries in regard to labeling and guaranteeing accompanied 

 these samples and directions were given in such cases as to the re- 

 quirements of the Law. The amount of fees for the analysis of spe- 

 cial samples received was $235.00, which was paid to the State Treas- 

 urer in the usual manner, from time to time, as they were received. 

 One sample was received and analyzed, for which no fee was re- 

 ceived, as the sender refused to remit the amount of charge after 

 having requested that the analysis be made. In this case no report 

 was made. 



Early in the year a Bulletin of 189 pages was prepared covering 

 the work done during 1913. These Bulletins were sent to approxi- 

 mately 6000 Manufacturers of and Dealers in Feeding Stuffs and 

 others interested in the work whose names appear on our mailing 

 list. The usual number of registrations were also received during 

 the latter part of 1913 and the first few weeks in 1914, listing the 

 various brands of feeds which were to be offered for sale in the Com- 

 monwealth. All these registrations were carefully looked over and 

 in quite a number of cases requests were made for samples to be sub- 



