28 



CONTROL SERIES No. 50 



Shea's Mash Feed 

 Advance Stock Feed 



John Shea 

 Vitality Mills, Inc. 



Charcoal found; not declared. 



Trace of gluten feed or gluten meal 

 found; not declared. 



The feeds listed below contained an appreciable content of unground weed 

 seeds. Germination tests were not made in order to determine if their power of 

 growth had been destroyed. 



Milker Ready Ration 

 Producer 20% Ready Ration 



Climax Laying Mash (2 samples) 



Perfect Dry Mash (2 samples) 



Elmore Stock Feed 

 Otsego Economy Ration 



Conestoga 18 Dairy Feed 

 Lancaster Mixing Feed 



Bull Brand Dairy Ration (2 samples) 



Hi-Test Dairy Feed (Sweetened) 



Jersey Dry Mash 



Marmico Dairy Feed with Molasses (2 .samples) 



Quaker 16% Protein Dairy Ration 



Arcady Farms Milhng Co. 



Butman Grain Co. 

 J. B. Cover & Co. 



Elmore Milling Co., Inc. 

 John W. Eshelman & Sons 



Maritime Milling Co., Inc. 

 Quaker Oats Co. 



The microscopic examinations made serve to emphasize the fact that prepared 

 feeds are as a whole dependable. 



Stock Remedies or Conditioners 



From time to time there have been sold in Massachusetts certain live-stock 

 remedies which, in addition to any small merit they may possess, carry as a 

 further inducement to promote their sale certain features such as insurance 

 against disease or a guarantee to furnish free veterinary service during the period 

 when the remedy is being used. So far as noted, no guarantee, expressed or im- 

 plied, as to just what the use of these materials will accomplish is attached to 

 the package or container. The statements of guarantee are so intangible and 

 general in their nature that their meaning is difficult to interpret, and therefore 

 conviction under the Federal Food and Drugs Act or State Law is practically 

 impossible. The guarantees do, however, state the name of the material, the 

 ingredients of which it is composed (but not the percentage of each ingredient), 

 the net weight of the package, and the name and address of the manufacturer. 

 Apparently all statements relative to the efficacy of the remedies are made orally 

 by a ghb salesman or through correspondence. 



In September, 1928, notice came to the Experiment Station from a dealer in 

 Franklin County who had in stock 156 twenty-five pound sacks of a remedy 

 which he had purchased at the rate of twenty-five cents a pound, giving his note 

 in payment. This shipment carried an agreement in which each user was guar- 

 anteed free veterinary service while the feed was in use. The feed purported to 

 contain sulphur, sulphate of iron, magnesium sulphate, fenugreek seed, charcoal 

 and sodium chloride (common salt). A partial analysis gave the following 

 results: 



Water ......... 



Common salt ....... 



Magnesium sulphate ...... 



Insoluble matter (charcoal, sulphur, fenugreek seed, etc.) 

 Sulphate of iron ....... 



Per cent 



2.8 



90.0 



1.2 



6.0 



trace 



