DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY. 



J. B. LiNDSEY, Chemist. 



INSPECTION OF COMMERCIAL FEEDSTUFFS. 



BY PHILIP H. SMITH AND ETHEL M. BRADLEY, CHEMISTS, AND JAMES T. HOWARD, 



INSPECTOR. 



Introduction. 



During the year (Sept. 1, 1921, to Sept. 1, 1922) 1,108 samples of feeding stuffs 

 collected of dealers and manufacturers were analyzed and are reported in this bulletin. 

 Two hundred and seventy-nine dealers located in 177 towns were visited at least once. 

 One thousand three hundred and seventy-six brands of feeding stuffs were registered 

 for sale in Massachusetts by 247 manufacturers. 



Changes in the Feeding Stuff Law. 



It is believed that the number of registrations for the coming year will be consider- 

 ably less owing to a recent amendment to the feeding stuff law requiring an annual 

 registration fee of $20 a brand. Up to the present time there has been no charge for 

 registration. This amendment, which went into effect Aug. 9, 1922, follows: — 



Chapter 400. 



An Act relative to the Registration and Sale of Commercial Feeding Stuff. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Chapter ninety-four of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out 

 section two hundred and twenty-seven and inserting in place thereof the following: — • Section 227. 

 No manufacturer, importer or other person shall sell or offer, expose or keep for sale or distribute 

 any commercial feeding stuff, until he has filed with the director or his authorized deputy for 

 registration, a copy certified by him to be a true copy of the tag or label required by the two pre- 

 ceding sections, excepting the item as to the number of pounds, for each brand of feeding stuff 

 to be sold or offered, exposed or kept for sale or distributed and has paid to said director or hia 

 authorized deputy a registration fee of twenty dollars for each such brand. No agent or other 

 person shall be obliged to file a copy of the tag or label of, or pay a registration fee for, any brand 

 of feeding stuff, for which a copy of the tag or label has been filed and the registration fee paid by 

 the manufacturer or importer of such brand and for which a certificate of registration has been 

 issued. 



