406 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



serious changes in consequence of changes in the parent 

 industry. 



Sales without due responsibility regarding the particular 

 quality of the goods delivered leave the pecuniary 7'isk in- 

 volved in the transaction in an objectionable degree on the 

 side of the buyer. 



Unaccounted-for variations in the composition of feed stuffs 

 must prove a serious obstacle in the desirable introduction of 

 a rational and economical system of stock feeding . 



For these and other reasons previously pointed out it cannot 

 be claimed that the prevailing Tnode of selling and buying 

 commercial feed stiffs rests on a just and fairly equitable 

 basis. 



The trade in commercial feed stiffs is to-day in a similar 

 unsatisfactory condition as loas the trade in commercial fer- 

 tilizers before the introduction of a system of State inspection 

 in regard to those articles. 



The best interests of both manufacturers and farmers, in 

 fact of every one who keeps live stock for his accommoda- 

 tion, render such changes desirable in the present mode of 

 selling and buying feed stuffs 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 carried on at our farms necessitate a 

 careful attention to all the details of the business. The 

 money interests involved are of an exceptional magnitude. 



