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CONTROL SERIES BULLETIN No. 32 OCTOBER, 1925 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



INSPECTION OF COMMERCIAL FEEDSTUFFS 



By Philip H. Smith and Frank J. Kokoski 



This publication is the thirty-first report of the work of feeding 

 stuff inspection in Massachusetts. It presents the results of 

 chemical and microscopic analyses on about 1,200 samples of 

 feeding stuffs collected during the year ending September 1, 1925. 

 It is of interest to note that of all the material collected, very little 

 had its origin in Massachusetts. While it is true that a certain 

 amount of the primary ingredients was blended within the state 

 to form dairy rations, stock feeds and poultry mashes, these in- 

 gredients came not only from other sections of our own country, 

 but from Canada, South America, Europe and the Orient. With 

 so great a dependence upon material from distant sources, the 

 purchaser should be afforded the fullest protection through care- 

 ful inspection of the products which must be purchased to supple- 

 ment the relati\ely small amount of feeding stuffs locally grown. 



Requests for Bulletins should be addressed to the 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



AMHERST, MASS. 



3500 12-'25 Order 3561 



