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meal or ground grain which has been so adulterated un- 

 less the true composition, mixture, or adulteration is 

 plainly marked or indicated upon the package containing 

 the same, or in which it is offered for sale, shall be fined 

 not less than twenty-five or more than one-hundred dollars 

 for each offense. 



Sect. 8. Whenever said secretary becomes cognizant of 

 the violation of any of the provisions of this act he shall 

 prosecute the party or parties thus reported; but it shall 

 be the duty of said secretary, upon thus ascertaining any 

 violation of this act, to forthwith notify the manufac- 

 turer, importer, or dealer in writing, and give him not 

 less than thirty days thereafter in which to comply with 

 the requirements of this article ; but there shall be no 

 prosecution in relation to the quality of any concentrated 

 commercial feeding-stuff if the same shall be found sub- 

 stantially equivalent to the certified statement named in 

 section 3 of this article. 



Sect. 9. This act shall take effect December first, nine- 

 teen hundred and one. 



The conditions underlying the feeding-stuffs business is 

 improving. IMore good feeds have been inspected than 

 during any previous year. There is evidence that the 

 consumers of feeding-stuffs are becoming more exacting and 

 are scrutinizing the brands offered for sale more closely 

 than ever before. The consumer and honest manufacturer 

 are entitled to more protection than they now receive 

 under our present law. The manufacturer should be re- 

 quired to guarantee the ingredients from which a feed is 

 made. Not all proteins have the same digestibility or nu- 

 tritive value. The same may be said of the other feed 

 constituents. If we know the source from which these con- 

 stituents come, it is a simple matter to find their digesti- 

 bility from tile tables in this report and in text books on 



