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According to the above requirements it is possible to add 20 percent weed 

 seeds or 20 percent oat hulls or 20 percent refuse screenings to clean 24-pound 

 No. 4 oats and call the mixture Sample Grade Oats. Not many farmers Would 

 buy these mixtures as whole oats Yet ground mixtures even worse than these 

 have been and are being sold as "ground oats." 



Information from several sources indicates that some Massachusetts feed 

 manufactuers demand a cheap grade of "ground oats." These manufacturers 

 know that at the price they are paying the product received labelled "ground 

 oats" cannot be as labelled. The Feed Control Service has been unable to find 

 anyone possessing the secret of selling at a profit ground oats at a lower price 

 than that of whole oats of exactly the same quality. 



Hereafter, any ground oat product containing more than 5 percent foreign 

 material, in the aggregate, will be considered a mixture and the listing of in- 

 gredients will be required. As an example, ground sample grade oats containing 

 6 percent weed seeds, 10 percent excess oat hulls and 4 percent dirt shall be 

 labelled "Ground Sample Grade Oats. Ingredients: ground oats, ground oat 

 hulls, ground weed seeds and dirt." 



Screenings and refuse screenings are considered as mixtures also. A ground 

 mixture of oats and barley screenings, for example, shall be labelled "Ground 

 Oats and Ground Barley Screenings. Ingredients: ground oats, ground inferior 

 barley, ground hulls, chaff and dirt." 



If mixtures such as the examiples given above are used in a mixed feed, the in- 

 gredients as listed above shall be included in the list of ingredients for the mixed 

 feed. 



The Feed Control Service recognizes the fact that various products like good 

 grades of oat, barley and wheat screenings have a place in the feed industry. Even 

 the inferior grades of these products may be utilized advantageously as feeds. 

 However, these materials must be bought and sold on the basis of their own 

 merits and under labels that are not misleading. 



In the table are listed the results of our examination of samples of oat products. 

 Most of these products were found to be mislabelled. 



The greatest offender was the LaCrosse Milling Company, of Cochrane, Wis- 

 consin. Several Federal samples were taken from shipments by this concern. 

 The analytical and shipping data were submitted to the Federal Food and Drug 

 Administration. One lot was seized. Originally labelled "ground oats," this 

 product was relabelled "Mixed Feed. Ingredients: ground oats, ground wheat, 

 ground barley, oat mill feed and not more than 10% screenings." 



A Federal sample was taken also from a shipment of ground mixed feed oats 

 from Jas. Richardson & Sons, Ltd., Toronto, Canada. 



