FERTILIZERS AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT. 37 



The same type of difficulty is encountered in the United States, 

 where the guaranty legend is often said to represent the Government's 

 guarantee of the quality of the article on which such a legend is placed. 

 Unfortunately it is so looked on by many, and this view is undoubt- 

 edly fostered by the unscrupulous. Food Inspection Decision 99, 

 amending Regulation 9 of the food and drugs act, was issued to mini- 

 mize this difficulty, and requires that the name of the guarantor be 

 inserted in the guaranty legend on the label. 



A long step forward has been made by this butter and margarine 

 act, 1907, by controlling the name by which margarine is described in 

 an advertisement. 



FERTILIZERS AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT, 1006. 



It is through the fertilizers and feeding stuffs act, 1906, that control 

 is had of feeding stuffs for animals other than man. The gist of this 

 act, apart from the portion relating to fertilizers, is found in section 2, 

 which states that 



(2) Every person who sells for use as food for cattle or poultry any article which has 

 been artificially prepared shall give to the purchaser an invoice stating the name of 

 lie article, and whether it has been prepared from one substance or seed or from more 

 ban one substance or seed, and in the case of any article artificially prepared other- 

 rise than by being mixed, broken, ground, or chopped what are the respective per- 

 entages (if any) of oil and albuminoids contained in the article, and the invoice shall 

 ave effect as a warranty by the seller as to the facts so stated, except that as respects 

 percentages the invoice shall have effect as a warranty only that the actual percentages 

 o not differ from those stated in the invoice beyond the prescribed limits of error. 



When an article is sold for feeding purposes it is supposed to be 

 uitable for the use to which it is to be put, and to contain no other 

 materials than those indicated by the name or description under 

 which it is sold. Upon payment of a stipulated fee, any purchaser 

 may receive a Government analysis of any feeding stuff if a sample is 

 ubmitted within 10 days of the delivery or receipt of invoice. 1 An 

 official sampler is also required to take the samples for analysis, 

 it the request of the purchaser, but such samples may also be taken 

 without such request. Three samples are taken when there is a possi- 

 >ility of civil or criminal proceedings being instituted, and, after seal- 

 ng, the official sampler must deliver one of them to the seller. This 

 )lan of delivering one sample to the seller was followed in the adminis- 

 /ration of the United States food and drugs act, but it was found in 

 some cases to be impracticable and useless, as prosecutions lie against 

 vendors in States only when they sell in " original packages" as de- 

 ined by the Supreme Court with respect to articles of interstate com- 

 nerce. In the United States, when a request is made for an official 

 sample, it is always given if practicable; the fertilizers and feeding 



In some of our States provision is made for the State analyst to make such analysis upon payment ol 

 .he required fee. 



