:ONTROL SERIES BULLETIN No. 40 NOVEMBER, 1927 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



INSPECTION OF COMMERCIAL FEEDSTUFFS 



Massachusetts statute requires that every parcel of commercial feeding 

 stuff offered for sale in the Commonwealth carry a guarantee as to its protein, 

 at and fiber content; and further defines a commercial feeding stuff for the 

 jurposes of the Act as including "all feeding stuff used for feeding live stock 

 md poultry and containing not more than sixty per cent of water, except whole 

 seeds or grains, and also unmixed meals made directly from the entire grains 

 )f corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, flaxseed, kafir and milo, whole 

 lays, whole straws, unground cottonseed hulls, and unground corn stover 

 vhen unmixed with other material." The Act further requires that mixtures 

 )f two or more materials bear a true statement as to the ingredients con- 

 lained therein. 



The authority for enforcement of the Act is vested with the Director of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. This publication, the thirty- 

 hird, is a record of work done during the past year in connection with its 

 jnforcement, and presents the results of the chemical and microscopic analyses 

 )f 1,602 samples of feeding stuffs intended for live stock and poultry con- 

 sumption, collected during the year ending September 1, 1927. 



Requests for Bulletins should be addressed to the 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



AMHERST, MASS. 



Publication op this Document approved by the Commission on Administration and FiNANCH 

 IM l-'28 Order 951 



