406 REPORT OF THE INSPECTION WORK OF THE 
trated commercial feeding stuffs,” as follows: bean meals, pea- 
nut meals, dried distillers’ grains, dried beet refuse, meat and 
bone meals, clover meals, condimental stock and poultry foods, 
patented and proprietary, or trade-marked, stock and poultry 
foods. 
The condimental stock and poultry foods were added to the 
list of feeding stuffs requiring legal supervision because it was 
felt that the interests of the agricultural public demand this. If 
these mixtures were offered to the public merely as medicines or 
condiments and no other claims were made for them they would 
not properly be classed among feeding stuffs. The fact is, how- 
ever, in a large number of cases extraordinary and even start- 
ling claims are made as to the nutritive (food) value of these 
substances, and it is but just that these claims should be subject 
to the same examination given to other materials offered to the 
public as food for cattle. It is time for the public to be more 
fully defended, if possible, against what is now one of the most 
serious impositions practiced upon it. 
The law has been further modified by repealing section 127 
which required that any person violating the provisions of the 
law be given thirty days after one notice in which to comply with 
said provisions. The actual effect of this requirement, under 
the interpretation placed upon section 127 by the Attorney- 
General, was to prevent prosecutions of offenders, a fact which 
caused the attitude of the Director of the Station to be misin- 
terpreted by those ignorant of the situation. 
FEEDING STUFFS LICENSED IN 1904. 
Previous to May 3d, 1904, 104 manufacturers or jobbers regis- 
tered the required guarantees and paid the license fee on 154 
brands of feeding stuffs to be placed on sale in New York State 
in 1904. 
The brands named in the following table (1) may be handled 
legally during the current year: 
