444 TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VI 



50-pound, and 100-pound denominations and are furnished by the 

 department at 10 cents per ton. 



IOWA FEEDING STUFFS LAW 

 100 Pounds 



R. G. Clark, 

 Commissioner 



No. S417915 



This is the Iowa official tag- for a 100-pound package of feed. 



Some manufacturers frequently do not attach the tax tag to each 

 sack, but instead put the required number of tags in the car of feed, 

 expecting the purchaser to place them on each sack. Often the 

 dealer fails to do this and in some cases claims he saw no tags when 

 he unloaded the car. The law requires the manufacturer to place 

 these tags on each sack and he should not ask the dealer to do it for 

 him, as the manufacturer is liable if the tags are not on each sack. 



When the feeder has reason to doubt the correctness of the brand- 

 ing on the feed he buys he may take a fair sample of the feed and 

 send to the Dairy and Food Commission with $1.00 and an analysis 

 will be made for him. Samples should be taken from several sacks 

 and mixed well together and a portion of this submitted for analysis. 

 The department cannot make analyses for manufacturers. They 

 should obtain this from their own chemist or a commercial chemist. 



The law makes no provision for the payment of a refund by the 

 manufacturer, to purchasers of feeds which have been found to con- 

 tain a less amount of protein than is stated on the label. Where there 

 is no apparent intention of the manufacturer to violate the law, we 

 will calculate the amount of refund on the basis of the protein defi- 

 ciency to be paid to the purchaser. If the purchaser is a dealer it is 

 understood that he will make a proper refund to each of his cus- 

 tomers to whom he has sold some of the feed found below the guar- 

 antee. Payment of the refund, however, will not restrict the depart- 

 ment from taking such legal action as it may deem advisable. 



The analyses of feeds collected by the inspectors and reported in 

 the following table shows that the manufacturer is observing the law 

 in all but a few cases. The greatest discrepancy is found in tankage. 

 This is due no doubt to a failure of some manufacturers to have 



