Circular No. 17. September, 1908. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



DEPARTMENT OF PLANT AND ANIMAL CHEMISTRY. 



J. B. LINDSEY, Chemist. 



AN ACT TO REGULATE THE SALE OF CONCENTRATED 



COMMERCIAL FEED STUFFS. 



Acts and Resolves for 1903, Chapter 122, 



Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs : 



Section i. Every lot or parcel of concentrated 

 Statements to commercial feed stuff, as defined in section two of 

 be attached to this act, used for feeding farm live stock, sold, or 

 packages. offered or exposed for sale within this Common- 

 wealth, shall have affixed thereto, in a conspicuous 

 place on the outside thereof, a plainly printed statement, clearly and 

 truly certifying the name, brand or trademark under which the arti- 

 cle is sold for feeding purposes, the name and address of the manu- 

 facturer, importer or dealer, the net weight of the package, and the 

 minimum percentage of crude protein, reckoning one per cent of 

 nitrogen equal to six and one-fourth per cent of protein, and crude 

 fat which it contains ; the several constituents to be determined by 

 the methods adopted by the Association of Official Agricultural 

 Chemists of the United States. If the feed stuff is sold in bulk, or 

 if it is put up in packages belonging to the purchaser, the agent or 

 the dealer shall, upon request of the purchaser, furnish him with 

 the certified statement described in this section. 



Section 2. The term "concentrated commercial 

 Defines feed feed stuff," as used in this act, shall include cotton- 

 stuffs included seed meals, linseed meals, pea meals, bean meals, 

 in law. peanut meals, cocoanut meals, gluten meals, gluten 

 feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar feeds, dried 

 distillers' grains, dried brewers' grains, dried beet refuse, malt 

 sprouts, malt refuse, hominy feeds, cerealine feeds, rice meals, oat 

 feeds, corn and oat feeds, corn, oat and barley feeds, chop feeds, 

 corn bran, ground beef or fish scraps, meat and bone meals, mixed 

 feeds — except as otherwise provided in section three of this act, — 

 clover meals', condimental stock and poultry foods, patented, proprie- 

 tary or trade-mark stock and poultry foods, and all other materials of 

 a similar nature not included in section three of this act, 



