the license fees which the manufacturer is required to pay annually on 

 each brand of feedingstuff offered for sale within the state. Since manu- 

 facturing and distributing costs are finally paid by the consumer, the pur- 

 chaser of feedingstuffs is interested in the effect of the cost of the inspec- 

 tion on the retail price per ton. The sixteenth census of the United States 

 Department of Commerce under the heading, specified farm expenditures, 

 1939, reports the retail value of feeds for domestic animals and poultry 

 sold in New Hampshire in that year as $7,619,245. A calculation based 

 on this valuation, and the known costs of the inspection, shows that the 

 cost to purchasers is less than four cents per ton of feed, a fraction of a 

 cent per 100-pound bag. 



SAMPLES FAILING TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW 



Of the 405 brands analyzed, 26 brands, or 6.4 per cent, were below 

 the guaranteed amount of protein. Fifteen of these were less than one- 

 half per cent below guarantee. Sixty-six brands, or 16.3 per cent, were 

 below guarantee in fat. Thirty-one of these were less than one-fourth per 

 cent below guarantee. Thirty brands, or 7.4 per cent, contained an ex- 

 cessive amount of crude fiber. 



In the tabulation of the analytical figures (p. 10 to p. 53 inclusive) 

 those figures one-half per cent or more below guarantee in protein, one- 

 fourth per cent or more below guarantee in fat, and one per cent or more 

 above guarantee in crude fiber are printed in bold-face type. 



Table I shows the percentage of samples failing to conform to the 

 guarantee in each of the last eighteen years. 11 



