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nets and sold under tlic iianu! of slii|)sliilT I hey will \)c considcrfd to he 

 adulterated. 



Cotton-seed Feeds: All mixtures of cottoivseed meal and hulls con- 

 taining less than 38.62 per cent of protein shall be branded Cotton-seed 

 Feed or sold under a trade name which does not contain the woi'd 

 "Meal" or any word that might be misleading to the purchaser. 



Other rulings relating to sliipi/ients in hulk, hi'iuiding, etc., have been 

 adopted and are published in anollicr form which will be mailed upon 

 request. The above information is given so that a manufacturer may 

 register and ])Ut his feeds on sale in the State without making a study 

 of the law. 



It is the duty of the Department of Agriculture to regularly inspect 

 the feeds offered for sale in the State and to see that all feeds bear the 

 tax stamp and are properly labeled. The Department is required to col- 

 lect and analyze at least one sample of every brand of feed found on 

 sale in the Slate during the year and to publish the results for the benefit 

 of those interested in this class of goods. 



The Department will be glad, at any time, to furnish information re- 

 garding the character and value of any class of feed. 



RESULTS OF THE E\FOKCEMENT OF THE FEED LAW. 



The first feed law in North Carolina went into effect in July, 1903. 

 At that time it was found that the markets of the State were flooded 

 with low-grade and adulterated feeds, with no branding on the bag to 

 indicate that they were made of anything but high-grade materials. 

 Such materials as rice chaff, ground corncobs, peanut hulls, oat hulls, 

 etc., with very little feeding value and now classed as adulterants, were 

 used extensively in the composition of feeds. 



Since the first law went into effect the Department has made fre- 

 quent inspections each year in all parts of the State, and wherever 

 adulterated or misbranded feeds have been found they have been with- 

 drawn from sale. The result of this work has been the steady decrease, 

 from year to year, in the number of adulterated feeds on the market, 

 and the steady increase in the quality of the feeds of all classes. 



With the publication of this, the ninth report on feeds, it will be 

 noticed that there are comparatively few cases of adulteration reported. 

 Following each table of analyses will be found a statement of the num- 

 ber of samples which fail to come up to the manufacturer's guarantee. 

 While this number is comparatively large in some classes of feeds it 

 will be noticed that in the majority of cases the difference between the 

 guarantee and the analysis is comparatively small. This trouble is due 

 largely to the manufacturers 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 bag or tag of the in- 

 gredients 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 feeds offered for sale under the name 

 of "Mill Feed," consisting of a mixture of wheat products and a small 

 amount of corn bran and meal. In all such cases the feeds haA^e been 



