July, 1939) INSPECTION OF FEEDING STUFFS 5 



free distribution. A 42-pag'e booklet containing the 157 

 definitions which have now been made official, the 21 general 

 regulations and other instructive material may be obtained 

 from the Secretary of the Association of American Feed 

 Control Officials, College Park, Maryland, at twenty-five cents 

 per copy. The manufacturer should secure a copy of one of 

 these booklets and list the ingredients accurately. Careless- 

 ness or indifference in listing the ingredients should create 

 sales resistance in the buyer. The purchaser is warranted in 

 concluding that the manufacturer who is inaccurate in naming 

 the ingredients printed on the tag will be equally inaccurate 

 in selecting the ingredients he puts into the bag. 



PURPOSE OF THE FEEDING STUFFS LAW 



The chief purpose of the feeding stuffs law is to protect 

 the consumer against the inferior products which would 

 doubtless soon appear on the market if the trade were not 

 under state control. The law is primarily a correct-labeling 

 act. It must not be assumed by the purchaser of feeding 

 stuffs that every brand which meets the manufacturer's 

 guarantee is a high-grade feed. The feeding stuifs law does 

 not prevent the sale of a low-grade feed if it is properly 

 licensed and tagged and is offered 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, carbohydrates and crude fiber 

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

 is composed are not plainly stated on the bag, or a tag attached 

 thereto, the purchaser is not protected by the state feeding 

 stuffs law. He has no recourse under the feeding stuffs law 



