One sentence in the New Hampshire feedingstuffs law reads as fol- 

 lows: "... and shall state in bold type upon the container or a tag at- 

 tached thereto, if a compounded feed, the names of the several ingredients 

 therein contained." To avoid the misinterpretation or deception which 

 may result from the manufacturer's use of indefinite terms in listing the 

 ingredients, the Association of American Feed Control Officials has adopted 

 170 official definitions of ingredients used in the compounding of feeding- 

 stuffs. These definitions are subject to frequent addition and revision. 

 At the present time there are also 48 tentative definitions and five that 

 have been proposed for future discussion. Tentative definitions are those 

 which have received favorable consideration but have not yet been made of- 

 ficial. A 79-page booklet containing the above three classes of definitions, 

 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 one dollar per copy. The manufacturer should 

 secure a copy of this booklet 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 manu- 

 facturer who is inaccurate in specifying the ingredients printed on the tag 

 may also be careless in selecting the ingredients he puts into the bag. 



PURPOSE OF THE FEEDINGSTUFFS LAW 



The chief purpose of the feedingstuffs law is to protect the consumer 

 against the inferior products which doubtless would 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 feed- 

 ingstuffs that every brand which meets the manufacturer's guarantee is a 

 high-grade feed. The feedingstuffs 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 legis- 

 late against the sale of the lower-grade by-products. They can be fed prof- 

 itably 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 con- 

 sumer in purchasing feed from the dealer, should make the specification 

 that the feed delivered must comply with the New Hampshire feeding- 

 stuffs law. If the feed is not registered ; if the protein, fat, and crude 

 fiber are not guaranteed ; and if the ingredients of which the feed is com- 

 posed are not plainly stated on the bag, or on a tag attached thereto, the 

 purchaser is not protected by the state feedingstuffs law. He then has no 

 recourse under the feedingstuffs law if- the feed which he purchases is of 

 inferior quality. The dealer who offers for sale a feedingstuff which has 

 not been registered and which is not guaranteed in compliance with the 

 law is probably indifferent to his customer's interests in other respects. 



