166 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



pies of commercial feeding-stuffs on sale at the various points, and to 

 make analyses. The detailed reports of the investigations are herewith 

 submitted, and the earnest attention of the Board is called to them. 



From the results of these investigations, your committee is certain 

 that various commercial feeding-stuffs sold in our markets are generally 

 adulterated, sometimes very grossly adulterated; that agricultural seeds 

 sold for seeding purposes in this State are found to contain to an alarming 

 degree the seeds of noxious plants, such as Canada thistle and quack 

 grass; and that numerous condimental stock foods for which extraordi- 

 nary claims are made are sold at a price out of all proportion to the cost 

 of their ingredients, or to their nutritive or medicinal value. Your com- 

 mittee has, therefore, prepared a bill for an act designed to regulate the 

 sale of these articles. 



Following the laws of other states, the bill proposes a tag tax upon 

 feeding-stuffs and stock foods, and a label specifying the ingredients in 

 mixed feeds and condimental stock foods, and a statement of the percent- 

 ages of crude protein, crude fat, and crude fiber, so that the purchaser may 

 know the relative feeding value of the feeding-stuffs he purchases, and 

 the ingredients in the condimental stock foods for which he pays a high 

 price. The bill seeks to prohibit the sale of seeds for seeding purposes 

 if certain noxious weed seeds are present, and requires labeling of seeds 

 when harmless weed seeds are present as an adulterant. 



Your committee, therefore, recommends that the matter be brought to 

 the attention of the Legislature with the approval of the Board of Agri- 

 culture for the bill herewith submitted.* 



Respectfully, 



S. B. Packabd, 



C. F. CURTISS, 



H. R. Wright, 

 Committee on the Adulteration of Foods, Seeds, and Other Products. 



RESULT OF ANALYSES AND INVESTIGATIONS MADE B\^ PROF. L. 



G. MICHAEL, CHEMIST AT THE IOWA EXPERIMENT 



STATION, FOR THE COMMITTEE. 



CONDITIONS OF FEEDING-STUFFS AS SOLD IN lOVt^A. 



The keynote of the attitude of not a few feed producers to the feed 

 buyers, was recently given by a miller in Burlington. This miller was 

 running corn hulls into his wheat bran. To the objection that this was an 

 adulteration, and that corn hulls did not contain as much protein as wheat 

 bran, he replied, "What in does a farmer know about protein." 



We buy a concentrated feed for its protein. It is protein that feed 

 producers guarantee their feeds to contain. Bran, shorts and middlings, 

 by-products of all kinds, are quoted at market prices governing pure, stan- 

 dard feeding-stuffs, containing a standard percentage of protein. We pay 

 the price, but almost nowhere in Iowa are we able to get a standard com- 

 modity in return. 



• Bill as passed by the Thirty-second General Assembly published in lieu 

 thereof on page 196. 



