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was getting something better than he really had; that feature of 

 the statute has already done considerable good. Prof. Michael 

 found a lot of these foods adulterated with wheat hulls and other 

 things. The adulteration of them has apparently, so far as we 

 know at the present time, ceased. 



The law does not prohibit the sale of stock food at all, with the 

 exception that it prohibits the sale of wheat or rye screenings con- 

 taining cockle or other poisonous or deleterious substances. The 

 statute permits the sale of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs, 

 whether simple or mixed, provided the seller tells exactly what he 

 has got. If he has a simple food like a bi-product he is required to 

 give the percentage of protein, fibre or fat. If he has a mixed 

 food he is required in addition to state the constituents, names of 

 the ingredients, to state also on the package the number of pounds 

 net weight. 



In addition to this the statute requires that upon such foods 

 there shall be paid a license of ten cents a ton, and these tags are to 

 be secured from the office of the Food Commissioner on the payment 

 of the necessary amount. This particular feature of the law has 

 aroused great opposition on the part of millers, and still more on 

 the part of feed dealers. They do not object so much to the money 

 phase as to the difficulty and trouble of attaching the tags, and the 

 opposition to the statute comes with the retailer or small dealer. 



You know, of course, many of our food stuffs of the kind in 

 question come in from the outside of the state: still a considerable 

 quantity is manufactured in the state. The question as to whether 

 the statute is violated as applied to foods outside of the state, is 

 raised by the American Linseed Co. They, too, have applied for 

 an injunction in the Federal court, alleging that the whole statute 

 is unconstitutional. So that I am obliged to say now, frankly, the 

 law has been enforced up to the present time It became ef- 

 fective the 4th of July and almost immediately applications for 

 injunctions were made. 



However, we have collected about $5,000.00 on the ten cent tags. 

 We have made some headway, even though we have not prosecuted 

 anybody, except one fellow in Delaware county, for selling food 

 which wasn't what he claimed it was. 



The third feature of the statute has not affected anything, for 

 the reason that the sale of seeds is usually conducted from the 

 middle of winter to spring, and very few seeds have gone on the 

 market since. The law is that a man who sells seeds may not 

 sell seed which contains quack-grass, Canada thistle, etc., and he 



