INSPECTION OF COMMERCIAL 

 FEEDING STUFFS 



ANALYSES OF COMMERCIAL FEEDING-STUFFS COLLECT- 

 ED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE IN 192L 



According to the federal census the consumers of New Hamp- 

 shire purchased about ten million dollars worth of commercial 

 feeding-stuffs in 1919. The value of these materials is largely 

 determined by their chemical analysis. No manufacturing com- 

 pany would purchase a large supply of material the value of which 

 depended on a chemical analysis without having the material in- 

 spected. It would be impracticable for each of the thousands of 

 consumers to maintain a laboratory to test the feeds which they 

 purchased. For this reason the state maintains an inspection ser- 

 vice which aims to protect the consumers against the possible 

 adulteration and misbranding of these materials. In order that 

 the inspection service may be most effective the consumers must 

 make use of it. This bulletin is a report of the inspection of feed- 

 ing-stuffs for the year 1921 made under the direction of the Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture, Mr. Andrew L. Felker. 



Do NOT THROW IT AWAY ! ReaD It! UsE IT WHEN YOU PUR- 

 CHASE FEEDS. 



Mr. E. D. Sanborn, State Inspector, visited most of the feed 

 warehouses in the state and collected 246 samples of feeds. 



With a few exceptions the feeds were of good quality and sim- 

 ilar to those of last year. The cottonseed meals, although 

 they showed a larger number of deficiencies in guarantees, had a 

 higher average analysis and quality than last year. There were 

 a larger number of poultry feeds and they showed a greater per- 

 centage of deficiencies than last year. The flaxseed meals were 

 inferior in quality and showed more deficiencies than last year. 



