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serious changes in consequence of changes in the parent 

 industry. 



Sales ivithout due responsibiliti/ regarding the particular 

 quality of the goods delivered leave the pecuniary risk in- 

 volved in the transaction in an objectionable degree on the 

 side of the buyer. 



Unaccountedfor variations in the comp)Osition of feed stuffs 

 must prove a serious obstacle in the desirable introduction of 

 a rational and economical system of stock feeding . 



For these and other reasons p)reviously pointed out it cannot 

 be claimed that the prevailing mode of selling and buying 

 commercial feed stuffs rests on a just and fairly equitable 

 basis. 



TJie trade in commercial feed stuffs is to-day in a similar 

 unsatisfactory condition as was the trade in commercial fer- 

 tilizers before the introduction of a system of State inspection 

 in regnrd to those articles. 



The best interests of both manufacturers and farmers, in 

 fact of every one who keeps live stock for his accommoda- 

 tion, render such changes desirable in the present mode of 

 sellino; and buying feed stuffs as will impose mutual and 

 equitable responsibility on all parties interested in the 

 transaction. The limited margins for profit in every branch 

 of animal industry carried on at our farms necessitate a 

 careful attention to all the details of the business. The 

 money interests involved are of an exceptional magnitude. 



