72 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The President: The next number on our program is "A Dis- 

 cussion of Iowa Statutes With Reference to Feeding Stuffs," by 

 H. R. Wright, State Food and Dairy Commissioner. 



A DISCUSSION OF IOWA STATUTES WITH REFERENCE 

 TO FEEDING STUFFS. 



H. R. WRIGHT, POOD AND DAIRY COMMISSIONER. 



Mr. President: I suppose this subject was put on the program 

 more to call attention to something the Board of Agriculture has 

 been engaged in, rather than to give any particular information in 

 regard to the statute. 



This Board, as organized, one of the things with which it was 

 charged was the investigation of adulterations. Those investiga- 

 tions have been carried on by means of a committee, of which Gov. 

 Packard has been chairman. These investigations have resulted in 

 the enactment of a general pure food law and also a stock food 

 law. 



The stock food law embraces three subjects: one being the so- 

 called Continental Stock Food, and the other subject, that of con- 

 centrated feeding stuffs, as they are usually known, and the third 

 subject, the question of seeds that are either adulterated or im- 

 pure, by reason of mixtures, etc. So, that these three subjects 

 are embraced in the statute, and I may say, there probably never 

 was a law of such relative importance, that took so much hustling 

 to get it passed through the legislature You would naturally 

 suppose it would have been universally favored, but the develop- 

 ments were different. 



As to the law in relation to Continental Stock Foods, we origin- 

 ally sought to have the names of the ingredients put upon the label 

 upon all packages. I may say, such a law was enacted in a half 

 dozen other states last year The makers of the Continental Stock 

 Foods devoted their attention to our legislature and succeeded 

 in blocking some of the provisions your committee put in the bill, 

 but they got the same kind of medicine in other states. We suc- 

 ceeded in having put into our statute a provision that the label 

 should bear a statement and name the percentage of the diluent. 

 The statutes passed in the other states were in effect that they 

 should give the names of the ingredients, while in Iowa they were 

 to give the percentage of the diluent. 



