accumulated from the license fees which the manufacturer is re- 

 quired to pay annually on each brand of feedingstuff offered for 

 sale within the state. Since manufacturing and distributing costs 

 are finally paid by the consumer, the purchaser of feedingstuffs is 

 interested in the effect of the cost of the inspection 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 on 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. The 1939 figure for 

 the retail value of feedingstuffs sold annually in the state is used, 

 since it is the most recent authoritative figure available. It is esti- 

 mated the present figure is considerably more than double that 

 amount. If the estimated valuation is used, the cost of the inspection 

 is less than two cents per ton. 



CONFORMITY TO THE GUARANTEES 



The chemical analyses were made by the methods of the Asso- 

 ciation of Official Agricultural Chemists. No sample was drawn 

 from less than 10 bags. Of the 591 brands analyzed, 15.3 per cent 

 contained less than the guaranteed amount of protein; 5.7 per cent 

 contained less than the guaranteed amount of fat, and 24.7 per cent 

 contained crude fiber in excess of the guarantee. A comparison of 

 these figures with those of previous years is shown in Table I. 



Resolution 21, p. 16 of the Official Publication of the Association 

 of American Feed Control Officials, reads in part "that urea is to be 

 used only in such limited quantities as to insure the total amount 

 present shall not exceed 37c of the (grain) ration." Seven brands 

 contained urea as one of the ingredients. None exceeded the 3 per 

 cent urea permitted under the resolution. 



In the tabulation of the analytical figures (p. 10 to p. 26 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. 



