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and valuable ingredients (from a feeding standpoint) which they 

 contain. The law should further provide that these feed stuffs 

 be inspected at intervals, to see if they are as represented. The 

 farmers simply ask that the manufacturer state what he sells, and 

 sell what he states. The farmer is willing to pay a fair price for 

 his goods. He objects, hoicever, most decidedly, to be obliged to 

 part with his hard-earned dollars for materials of variable and con- 

 sequently uncertain quality. Every advantage is, at present, on the 

 side of the manufacturer. The farmer takes all the chances. 



Prof. C. A. Goessmann, in writing on the same subject, has re- 

 cently used the following language : — 



Names may remain the same, while the composition of the article suf- 

 fers serious changes, in consequence of changes in the parent indnstry. 



Sales without due responsibility regarding the particular quality of 

 the goods delivered leaves the pecuniary risk involved in the transac- 

 tion in an objectionable degree on the side of the buyer. 



The trade in concentrated feed stuffs is to-day in a similar unsatisfac- 

 tory condition, as was the trade in commercial fertilizers before the in- 

 troduction of a system of State inspection. 



The best interests of both manufacturers and farmers render such 

 changes desirable as will impose mutual and equitable responsibility on 

 all parties interested in the transaction. 



The limited margins for profit in every branch of animal industry 

 necessitate a most careful attention to all details of the business. 



