No. 4.] COXCENTRATED FEED STUFFS. 327 



Recognizing then, firstly, the large number of concen- 

 trated by-products in our jNIassaclmsetts markets with very 

 different feeding and commercial values, and secondly, that 

 the large majority of these feeds differ quite widely of them- 

 selves in com})Osition, and thirdly, that these feed stuffs are 

 purchased by the farmer primarily for their protein content, 

 it is but fair that the manufacturers should be obliged to 

 state the amounts of the most costly and valuable ingredients 

 (from a feeding stand-point) 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, however, most decidedly, to 

 be obliged to part with his hard-earned dollars for materials 

 of variable and consequently uncertain quality. Every advan- 

 tage is, at present, on the side of the manufacturer. The 

 farmer taJies all the chances. 



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

 has recently used the following language : — 



Names may remain the same, while the composition of the 

 article suffers serious changes, iu consequence of changes in the 

 parent industry. 



Sales without due respousibihty regarding the particular quality 

 of the goods delivered leaves the pecuniary risk involved in the 

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



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

 unsatisfactory condition as was the trade in commercial fertilizers 

 before the introduction of a system of State inspection. 



The best interests of both manufacturers and farmers rendei' 

 such changes desirable as will impose mutual and equitable re- 

 sponsibility on all parties interested in the transaction. 



The limited margins for profit in every branch of animal in- 

 dustry necessitate a most careful attention to all details of the 

 business. 



