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uniformly in the same direction during" successive years. It is not 

 difficult, where feeds are inspected year after year, to determine when 

 there is a deliberate purpose to place goods on the market that are 

 inferior to the guarantees. 



It should be said of the compounded feeds and hominy feeds that 

 in almost all cases the actual proportions of protein and fat present 

 were found to agree, within reasonable limits, with the guarantees. 

 Numerous analyses of bran, middlings and of mixed wheat ofiPals 

 show that these feeds are, as rule, of good quality and unmixed 

 with inferior materials. 



Many samples of corn and oat feed were taken that were found to 

 be true to name, that is, these were composed of whole corn and 

 whole oats ground together. 



VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW. 



The traveling agents of the Station reported numerous instances 

 of violation of the concentrated feeding stuff law, a very large pro- 

 portion of which were offences of a minor character, due to negli- 

 gence or ignorance, such as keeping in stock unlicensed mixtures of 

 corn meal and wheat bran, failure of the dealer to have in his posses- 

 sion the statements required when licensed goods are sold in bulk, 

 and the selling of mixed wheat oft'als under proprietary names with 

 no markings on the bags or attached thereto to show the real charac- 

 ter of the contents. These cases were in many instances satisfactorily 

 adjusted by correspondence. Forty-eight cases were reported to the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, in nearly all of which compliance with 

 the law was secured in accordance with the thirty day provision of 

 Sec. 127. Some complaints are still pending. 



It is proper in this connection to emphasize the fact that keeping in 

 stock mixtures of corn meal and wheat bran, or any mixtures whatso- 

 ever other than those of the ground grains or of wheat offals, without 

 the payment of a license fee and the filing of a guaranteed analysis, 

 must be regarded as a violation of law. 



