THE YOUNG FARMER 



the manufacture of liquors, starch, glucose, 

 sugar, cottonseed and linseed oils and break- 

 fast foods. Various mixtures, varying 

 widely in chemical composition, especially 

 in protein and crude fiber, were placed upon 

 the market. In some instances mixtures 

 were grossly adulterated with such things 

 as oat hulls and ground corn cobs. 



The adoption of this law by certain states 

 has served to make other states the dumping 

 ground for inferior stock foods, thus 

 increasing the necessity for similar protec- 

 tion. The law does not apply to the ordi- 

 nary grains produced by farmers or to the 

 usual by-products of millers. 



SEED CONTROL 



From time immemorial it has been the 

 universal custom of seedsmen to disclaim all 

 responsibility for the purity and germinat- 

 ing power of their seeds. But as the impor- 

 tance of good seed good in hereditary 

 power, good in germination, good in its free- 

 dom from adulteration, good in its absence 

 of noxious weed seed has become better 

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