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For these and other reasons previously pointed out it cannot 

 be claimed that the jyrevailing mode of selling and buying 

 commercial feed stuffs rests on a just and fairly equitable 

 basis. 



The trade in comtnercial feed stuffs is to-day in a similar 

 wisatisfactory condition as was the trade in commercial 

 fertilizers before the introduction of a system of State 

 inspection in regard to those articles. 



The generally conceded success of the introduction of a 

 well-regulated system of State inspection in regard to com- 

 mercial fertilizers seems to suggest the adoption of a similar 

 course loith reference to the trade in commercial feed stuffs. 



The best interests of both manufacturers and farmers, in 

 fact of every one who keeps live stock for his accommoda- 

 tion, render such changes desirable in the present mode of 

 selling and buying feed stuffs as will impose mutual and 

 equitable responsibility on all parties interested in the 

 transaction. The limited margins for profit in every In-anch 

 of animal industry carried on at our farms necessitates a 

 careful attention to all the details of the business. The 

 money interests involved are of an exceptional magnitude. 



A due consideration of the present condition of our trade 

 in commercial feed stuffs has induced the Board of Control of 

 the Massachusetts State Agricultural Experiment Station to 

 request the writer to present the subject once more to the 

 consideration of all parties interested ; and to invite their 

 co-operation in devising suitable means to secure a fair 

 degree of mutual responsibility on the part of all parties 

 interested in the trade and the consumption of commercial 



feed stuffs, 



C. A. GOESSMANN. 



November, 1892. 



