No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. «7 



cases. It is higlily desirable, therefore, tliat tlie ay)y)ropriation for 

 tins work for tlie next liscnl pei'iod should he j)ut hack to its original 

 amount. I call 3'our attention to this niatlei- in order that you may 

 know of the situation and also as you may have an op[)ortunity to 

 help us out in this respect. We haven't examined quite as many sam- 

 ples of feeding stutl's last year as we did the j)revious year for the 

 reason that the work was interru]>ted by moving the laboratories. 

 The Board of Public Grounds and Buildings have fitted up a building 

 in the Capitol Bark Extension zone for the use of the laboratories 

 of the r)e])artment and have moved the equij)nient from the Ca])itol 

 to this building which makes it possible for all the chemical work of 

 the Department to be done in a thorough and economical manner. 



During the year our Special Agents collected 1.2(>4 official samples 

 of feeding stuffs which were submitted to the Chief Chemist for analy- 

 sis. All of these samples were examined microscopically and an- 

 alyzed for protein, fat and fiber and reports made to the manufactur- 

 ers and the dealers from whom they were secured. In addition to 

 this there were 225 special samples of feeding stuffs sent in for analy- 

 sis by residents of the State. 



The following is a list of the counties visited and the number of sam- 

 ples of feeds collected in each which I will not read at this time but 

 which will be included in the published report. There were a num- 

 ber of towns visited in which no sample were secured as they repre- 

 sented brands, samples of which had been taken in other towns, how- 

 ever, we feel that the State was well covered during the year of in- 

 spection. 



Name of County No. of Samples 



Adams, 4 



Allegheny, 76 



Armstrong, 13 



Beaver, 35 



Bedford, 18 



Berks, 36 



Blair, 36 



Bradford, 24 



Butler, 36 



Cambria, 40 



Cameron, 8 



Centre, 16 



Chester, 24 - 



Clearfield, 26 



Clinton, 13 



Crawford, 26 



Cumberland, 12 



Dauphin, 24 



Elk, 23 



Erie 34 



Fayette, 26 



Forest, 3 



Huntingdon, 10 



Indiana, 26 



Jefferson, — 36 



