MAINE 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



ORONO, MAINE. 



CHAS. D. WOODS, Director 



(ifftnal ittaiJ^rttottH. 



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Both the spirit and the letter of the Maine Inspection laws 

 demand freedom from adulteration and truthful labeling. 



FEEDING STUFF INSPECTION. 



Therj are here reported the analyses of samples of feeding 

 stuffs subnutted, chiefly by dealers, May to December, 1909. 

 In the samples thus submitted protein alone was determined. 

 These samples were taken in accordance with the Station direc- 

 tions and whenever samples were received that fell below the 

 guaranty new samples from at least six packages were re- 

 quested. Only one analysis out of the same car is here 

 reported, in each case it being the highest so as to give all 

 benefit of doubt to the goods. In some instances the analyses 

 represent cars that were refused by the dealers and sent out 

 of the State. So far as known, in all instances where lots fell 

 below the guaranty and were accepted, the guarantees were 

 changed to accord with act-.ial analyses. 



These results are printed at this time without comment in 

 order that they may l)c pr')mptly before all Imndlcrs of feeding 

 stuff's and in the hands of feeders. The usual winter inspec- 

 tion is being made by the Station and the results of the an- 

 alyses of the official samples will be reported in a nuiubcr of 

 Official Inspections that will proliablv be ready lor distribution 

 in May. 



