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withdrawn from sale until the manufacturer furnished the dealer with 

 properly printed tags showing the ingredients of which the feed was 

 composed. ^ 



Adulteration of Shipstuff. — The definition for shipstuff used by this 

 Department, and the one which is recognized generally by the trade, 

 requires that it shall he composed of wheat products only. By referring 

 to the tabulated analyses of shipstuff it will be seen that fourteen sam- 

 ples are reported in which the shipstuff is adulterated with corn bran. 

 Wherever such lots of shipstuff have been found they have been with- 

 drawn from sale until the manufacturers rebranded them as "Mixed 

 Feed" and stated plainly on the tag that the feed was composed of 

 Avheat and corn products. 



The most serious case of adulteration was with one shipment of Bice 

 Bran, shipped into the State from New Orleans. This lot of rice bran 

 was not offered for sale under a guaranteed analysis. The chemical 

 analysis showed it to be considerably below the standard for this prod- 

 uct and to be adulterated in that it contained 33.66 per cent of rice 

 hulls. On this account this lot of rice bran was not allowed to be sold 

 in the State and the manufacturers were required to ship it out of 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. 



REGISTRATION. 



In compliance Avith Section 3 of the Feed Law 260 manufacturers 

 have registered their feeds with this Department. The total number of 

 brands registered is 690, distributed among the following classes of 

 feeds : 



Wheat Bran and Mixed Brans 92 



Middlings or Shorts 102 



Bran and Shorts 35 



Shipstuff 25 



Rye Feeds 3 



Corn and Oat Feeds 11 



Rice Feeds 22 



Molasses Feeds 34 



Alfalfa Feeds 36 



Beet Pulp 1 



Chop Feeds and Meals 16 



Cotton-seed Feeds 26 



Peanut Feeds 1 



Gluten Feeds 6 



Cracked Corn ^ 14 



Special Mixed Feeds 55 



Poultry Feeds 127 



Miscellaneous Mixed Feeds 61 



Wheat Feeds 23 



Total 690 



