INSPECTION OF FEEDING STUFFS= 



\V. H. JORDAN AND F. D. FULLER. 



SUMMARY. 



(i) One hundred manufacturers have Hcensed one hundred and 

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



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

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



(3) No adulteration was observed among the cotton seed and lin- 

 seed meals, gluten products and brewers and distillery residues, as 

 shown by the official samples. Corn cobs were shown to be present 

 in three brands of licensed feeds, in two samples of unlicensed bran 

 and in one sample sold as pure corn meal. Several proprietary feeds 

 were found, as usual, to be made up in part of oat hulls. 



(4) Many samples of wheat offals, bran, middlings and the same 

 mixed, were found to be unadulterated and of good quality. The 

 same can be said of numerous samples of corn and oats ground 

 together. 



(5) The markets are offering many inferior feeding stuffs. At 

 the same time, the great bulk of commercial cattle foods available to 

 buyers are unadulterated and of good quality. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The feedings stuff's- law provides for the annual analysis of the 

 various feeds found on sale in New York, and " the results of the 

 analysis, together with such additional information as circumstances 

 advise, shall be published in reports or bulletins from time to time." 



*A reprint of Bulletin No. 240. 



