382 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



COOPERATION WITH U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



Through a cooperative arrangement with U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, all interstate shipments of commercial feeding stuffs found to be below 

 guarantee or that any other respect have been shipped in violation of the 

 provisions of the Federal Food and Drug act are referred to the U. S. Food 

 and Drug Inspection Station, Central District, Chicago, 111. During the 

 past year sixteen samples have been disposed of in this way. In fifteen of 

 the cases citations have been issued and the other case is still under investi- 

 gation. 



DEFINITIONS OF FEEDING STUFFS 



It is important that farmers become familiar with the names and descrip- 

 tions of comm*ercial feeding stuffs, as these are used by feed manufacturers 

 in listing the ingredients of mixed feeds. The definitions as amended and 

 adopted by the Association of Feed Control Officials of the United States 

 at its last meeting are as follows : 



Meal is the clean, sound, ground product of the entire grain, cereal or seed 

 which it purports to represent. 



Chop is a ground or chopped 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. 



Alfalfa meal is the entire alfalfa hay ground, and does not contain an ad- 

 mixture of ground alfalfa straw or other foreign materials. 



ANIMAL PRODUCTS. 



Blood Meal is ground dried blood. 



Cracklirifjs are the residue after partially extracting the fats and oils from 

 the animal tissues. If they bear a name descriptive of their kind, composi- 

 tion or origin, they must correspond thereto. 



Digester Tankage is the residue from animal tissues, exclusive of hoof and 

 horn, specially prepared for feeding purposes by tanking under live steam, 

 drying under high heat, and suitable grinding. If it contains more than 10 

 per cent of phosphoric acid (P2O5) it must be designated Digester Meat and 

 Bone Tankage. 



Meat Scrap and Meat Meal are the ground residues from animal tissues 

 exclusive of hoof and horn. If they contain more than 10 per cent of phos- 

 phoric acid (P2O6) they must be designated Meat and Bone Scrap and Meat 

 and Bone Meal. If they bear a name descriptive of their kind, composition or 

 origin, they must correspond thereto. 



BARLEY PRODUCTS. 



Barley Hidls are the outer chaffy coverings of the barley grain. 



Barley Feed is the entire by-product resulting from the manufacture of 

 pearl barley from clean barley. 



Barley Mixed Feed is the entire offal from the milling of barley flour from 

 clean barley and is composed of barley hulls and barley middlings. 



