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inferior products offered for sale unless some changes are made 

 in the present methods. It is very doubtful if alone the publicity 

 given to poor articles will longer answer the public needs. 



Twelve brands of cotton-seed meal have been sampled and 

 analyzed. Fifty per cent, of these did not satisfy the guarantee 

 with respect to protein. In one case the deficiency amounted 

 to 18 per cent., while in two others the deficiencies were a httle 

 more than 13 per cent. These represent pretty fair margins 

 for profit and loss. On the other hand, one sample showed a 

 protein content of more than 7 per cent, greater than the guar- 

 antee. Two dollars per ton represented the difference in the 

 selling price of the poorest and best meals. This is a matter 

 which both the consumer and seller might well think about. 

 It is obvious that something should be done that would give 

 the consumer an opportunity to know what he buys. A revision 

 of the present law together with some changes in the analytical 

 facilities would meet these needs. The dealer in high grade 

 feeding stuifs should be as insistent as the consumer for these 

 changes. The results would be his best advertisements. 



The growth of the poultry business has been accompanied 

 by a great flood of poultry feeds. These are compounded from 

 many grains and seeds, charcoal, meal scraps, bone shells, etc. 

 Without discussing the merits of the different brands of these 

 feeds a few general remarks may be in order. Some of these 

 feeds are made from a good quality of grains. Others are a mix- 

 ture of screenings and inferior grains. A careful inspection of 

 these mixtures will usually enable one to determine something 

 about the quality. Usually the price is sufficient to cover the 

 cost of a high grade article. The prices of the best mixtures 

 are little different from the prices of the inferior mixtures. 



The beef scraps and animal meals while numerous, do not 

 call for any particular comment. Because of the general nature 

 of the materials which go into these, the composition is neces- 

 sarily more or less variable. In general all of these meal mix- 

 tures are by-products of packing house industries and have be- 

 come important as poultry feeds. Because of the general com- 

 position of these products, proper sampling is difficult at best 

 and small deviations from the guarantee are not particularly 

 significant. 



Among the feeds one sample of alfalfa meal has been reported. 



