22 Director's Report of the 



Average Cost to Consumers of One Pound of Plant-Food in Mixed 



Fertilizers. 



Nitrogen 23 . o cents. 



Phosphoric acid (available) 5.75 " 



Potash 6.10 " 



Inspection of concentrated feeding stuffs. — A summary of the work 

 accomplished in this Hne is presented below, as shown by Bulletin 

 240. 



(i) One hundred manufacturers have licensed one hundred and 

 fifty-one brands of feeding stuffs for the year 1903. 



The list of licensed brands may be classified as follows : 



Proprietary or mixed feed 78 brands 



Meat and bone meal 15 " 



Distillers' grains 14 " 



Hominy feed or chop 13 " 



Linseed meal 9 " 



Cottonseed meal 5 " 



Gluten feed 6 



Malt sprouts ^ 4 " 



Sugar beet refuse 2 " 



Brewers' grains i brand 



Corn bran I " 



Corn oil cake i " 



Gluten meal i " 



Molasses grains i " 



Total 151 brands. 



(2) Five hundred eighteen samples of feeding stuffs, officially 

 collected from October, 1902, to February, 1903, have been analyzed. 

 These samples may be classified as follows : 



Nani^ «f ^^^'l- sampV brands. 



Cottonseed-meal 15 8 



Distillers' grains 18 8 



Brewers' grains 2 2 



Linseed cake, ground 4 2 



Linseed oil meal 23 10 



Gluten meal 2 2 



Gluten feed 22 7 



Hominy feed 28 il 



