CONDIMENTAL FEEDS, STOCK AND POULTRY TONICS 



AND CONDITIONERS 



By G. M. MacNider, Feed Chemist and Mlcroacopist. 



For many years a large variety of condi mental feeds, condition 

 powders, tonics, etc., for both cattle and poultry have been offered 

 for sale in this State. While some of these remedies do possess 

 medicinal value a very large number of them are of doubtful value 

 for either stock or poultry, A few of these remedies are sold under 

 the name of stock or poultry foods, but most of them are sold as 

 tonics or conditioners and none of them make any claims as to their 

 feeding value, and therefore they do not come under the law regu- 

 lating commercial feeds. As it was known that a large amount of 

 money was spent annually by the feeders of the State for these prepa- 

 rations and in many cases the claims made by the manufacturers of 

 these preparations were misleading and fraudulent, the General As- 

 sembly of 1900 passed the following law regulating the sale of these 

 tonics and conditions. 



The text of the law is as follows : 



An Act to Regulate the Registration and Sale of Condimextal, Patented, 

 Provrietary or Trade-marked Stock or Poultry Tonics. Regulators or 

 Conditioners. 



The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: 



Section 1. That before any condimeiital, patented, proprietary or trade-marked 

 "stock or poultry tonic," "stock or poultry •regulator," "stock or poultry condi- 

 tioner," or any similar preparation, regardless of the specific name or title under 

 which it is sold, which is lepresented as containing "tonic," "remedial" or other 

 "medicinal" projierties, either is sold, ofl'ered or exposed for sale in the State, the 

 manufacturer, importer, dealer, agent or person who causes it to be sold or 

 offered for sale, by sample or otherwise, within this State shall file with the Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture a statement that he desires to offer such "stock or 

 poultry tonic," "stock or poultry regulator," "stock or poultry conditioner" or 

 similar preparation for sale in tiiis State, and also a certificate, the execution of 

 which shall be sworn to before a notary public or other proper official, for regis- 

 tration, stating the name of the manufacturer, the location of the principal ofl[ice 

 of the manufacturer, and the name, brand or trade-mark under which the said 

 preparation or preparations will be sold, together with the guaranty that said 

 preparation or preparations are not injurious to the health of domestic animals 

 and that they do not conflict with the drug requirements of the North Carolina 

 Food and Drug Act, and that the name or trade-mark under which the article 

 is sold shall not mislead or deceive the purchaser in any way, also, that any 

 statement, design or devise on the label or package regarding the substances 

 contained therein shall be true and correct, and any claim made for the feed- 

 ing, condimental, tonic or medicinal value shall not be false or misleading in 

 any particular, and file with the Commissioner of Agriculture a labeled package 

 of each brand of goods, showing claims made for same, which labeling and claims 

 shall not be changed during the fiscal year for which registration is made without 

 the consent of the Commissioner of Agriculture. 



Sec. 2. For the expense incurred in registering, inspecting and analyzing 

 "stock or poultry tonics," "stock or poultry regulators," "stock or poultry condi- 



