The Control Service makes many analyses to protect animal feedstuffs. 

 Here the chemist determines the amount of trace elements in a feed. 



MASSACHUSETTS FIRST 



TO PASS FEED ACT 



JOHN W. KUZMESKI * 



IN the early days when farmers 

 raised their own grain for their 

 livestock, there was httle need to 

 question the quality of feed. To- 

 ward the latter part of the nine- 

 teenth century, however, great 

 quantities of various feeds were 

 being shipped into Massachusetts 

 from other states. Among these 

 feeds were by-products from the 

 flour milling, starch, glucose, and 

 linseed and cottonseed oil industries. 

 The products included wheat bran 

 and middlings, corn gluten feed and 

 meal, and cottonseed and linseed oil 

 meals. By 1895, several brands of 

 mixed feed were being manufactured 

 and sold. 



The wide differences in the ap- 

 pearance and health of animals eat- 



■k Head of Feed and Fertilizer Control Services. 



ing different lots of supposedly sim- 

 ilar feed made it apparent that the 

 nutritive value of the feeds varied 

 even though the labels proclaimed 

 the feeds to be the same. Analysis 

 of some of the feeds at the New 

 England experiment stations indi- 

 cated considerable variation in com- 

 position. For example, in some in 

 stances coffee hulls were being added 

 to wheat bran, and groimd corn 

 cobs were being blended with wheat 

 middlings. Cottonseed meal, which 

 normally contains over 36 percent 

 protein, often contained only 19 per- 

 cent protein and was mixed with 

 ground cotton hulls. There were 

 many other instances of similar ac- 

 tivities on the part of unscrupulous 

 feed manufacturers. 



This problem was thoroughly dis- 

 cussed at a meeting of the New Eng- 



