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between the jobber and dcalci'. That is the business of 

 the eounnereial chemist. The Experiment Station here- 

 ai'tcr must (h-eline to analyze samples of cottonseed meal 

 oi- oilier feed-stnit's"unless the results are of general public 

 iuterest. The results are not of general public interest 

 wlu'U only the jobber and dealer are concerned. 



We wish to point out an exami)le to show how the double 

 guarantee works ont practically. It appears that in or about 

 the mouth of January, 1915, D. Whiting & Sons of Clare- 

 mont, N. II., received a carload of cottonseed meal from 

 Humphrey-Godwin Co., and had the same analyzed at the 

 Experiment Station. This sample was re])orted to con- 

 tain 35% })rotein. Another lot of cottonseed meal was 

 analyzed for these people by request and was reported to 

 contain 32.68% protein. After these reports were received 

 by D. Whiting & Sons, they continued to sell the cotton- 

 seed meal guaranteed to contain 38.629< protein. Three 

 lots of this meal which had been sold wei-e sampled by a 

 representative of the State Commissioner of Agriculture 

 and were found to contain protein as follows: 



Sample 1 35.00'% protein 



Sample 2 31.70% protein 



Sample 3 31.61 %r protein 



The interesting thing about it is this: D. Whiting & 

 Sons were entitled to receive a rebate of $3.00 per ton on 

 one lot and more than $4.00 on the other lot. However, 

 the consumers wJio purchased the pooTer meal received 

 more tluin a dollar less rel)ate than D. Whiting & Sons 

 were entitled to get. Tliis is a concrete example of how 

 the double guarantee practice works out to tlu^ detriment 

 of the consumer and to the advantage of the i-etail dealer. 

 I'll is also is a concrete exam])l(' slu)wing why the I<]xperi- 

 iiirnt Station will not analyze samph'S of feeding-stuffs to 

 enable the dealer to secure ;i rebate all of which the con- 

 sumer can imt also secure. 



It might be said liere that 1). Whiting & Sons laid them- 

 selves open to })rosecuti()n when they sold the Ihreu lots 

 of meal referred to above. They escaped being ju-osecuted 

 only because the court in Sullivan County did not con- 

 vene until Mav and because in the meantime information 



