N. H. EXPERIMENT STATION (Bulletin 308 



Alfalfa used to designate alfalfa meal, alfalfa leaf meal, 

 alfalfa stem meal or chopped alfalfa. 



Middlings used to designate wheat micidlings or oat 

 middlings. 



Carelessness in listing the ingredients may create sales 

 resistance for the feed. The purchaser may assume that the 

 manufacturer who is indefinite in printing the tag will be 

 indifferent in filling the bag. 



The chief purpose of the Feeding StufTs Law is to protect 

 the consumer against the inferior products which would doubt- 

 less soon appear on the market if the trade were not under 

 state control. The law is primarily a correct-labelling act. 

 It must not be assumed by the purchaser of feeding stufts that 

 every brand which meets the manufacturer's guarantee is a 

 high-grade feed. The Feeding StulTs Law does not prevent 

 the sale of a low-grade feed if it is properly licensed and tagged 

 and is oiTered for sale in compliance with the law. It would 

 not be in the public interest to legislate against the sale of 

 the lower-grade by-products. They can be fed profitably if 

 bought at a price adjusted to their feeding value. The law 

 does prevent an inferior feed being offered for sale as a high- 

 grade product. 



The dealer in purchasing feed from the manufacturer and 

 the consumer in purchasing feed from the dealer should both 

 specify: The feed delivered on this order must comply with 

 the New Hampshire Feeding Stuffs Law. If the feed is not 

 registered; if the protein, fat, carbt)hydrates and crude fiber 

 arc not guaranteed; and if the ingredients of which the feed 

 is composed arc not plainly stated on the bag, or a tag at- 

 tached thereto, the purchaser is not protected by the state 

 feeding stuffs law. lie has im recourse under the feeding 

 stuffs law if the feed which he i)urchases is of inferior cjuality. 



