DEPARTMENT OF PLANT AND ANIMAL CHEMISTRY. 



J. B. LiNDSEY, Chemist. 



INSPECTION OF COMMERCIAL FEED STOFFS 



By P. H. Smith, Chemist in Charge. 



Assisted by 



C. L. Perkins, C. D. Kennedy and J. C. Reed. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Requirements The Massachusetts feeding stuffs law requires 

 of Law. that all feeding stuffs sold or offered for sale 



in Massachusetts shall have affixed to each 

 package in a conspicuous place the following information: 



1. Name and address of the manufacturer or person re- 

 sponsible for placing the commodity on the market. 



2. The net weight of the contents of the package. 



3. The guaranteed minimum percentage of crude protein 

 and of crude fat that the feeding stuff" contains. 



4. In case of admixtures the name of the foreign substance 

 must be plainly printed upon each sack or parcel. 



5. When feeding stuffs are stored in bulk and sold to order 

 in purchasers' sacks, the foregoing information must be tacked 

 up in a conspicuous place on or near the bin in which the material 

 is stored. 



The feeding stuff's exempted from the provisions of the 

 act are hays and straws, the whole seeds and unmixed meals made 

 directly from the entire grains of wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian 

 corn, bvickwheat and broom corn, wheat bran, wheat middlings, 

 wheat mixed feed. The above-mentioned grains when ground 

 together and unmixed with other substances are also exempt. 



The object of the law is, primarily, to protect 



Object of the consumer from misrepresentation and fraud. 



the Law. It accomplishes this purpose by obliging the 



manufacturer to tell the truth about what he 



sells. The law is also of benefit to the honest manufacturer in 



that he is not obliged to enter into unequal competition with un- 



