June, 1910 



MAINE 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



ORONO, MAINE. 



CHAS. D. WOODS, Director 



Analysts 

 James M. Bartlett Herman H. Hanson 



Albert G. Durgin Royden L. Hammond 



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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. 

 CHIEF require;ments of the law. 



The points of the law of most interest both to the dealer and 

 consumer concisely stated, follow. 



Kinds of Feed B.veinpt Under the Lazv. The law applies to 

 all feeding stuffs except the following : hays and straws ; whole 

 seeds, meals, brans and middlings of wheat, rye. barley, oats, 

 Indian corn, buckwheat and l)room corn, sold separately ; wheat 

 bran and middlings mixed together and pure grains ground 

 together. 



Kinds of Feed Coming U'ifJiin the Law. The principal feeds 

 coming under the provisions of the law are linseed meals, cot- 

 tonseed meals, cottonseed feeds, pea meals, cocoanut meals, glu- 

 ten meals, gluten feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar feeds, 

 dried brewer's grains, dried distiller's grains, malt sprouts, hom- 

 iny feeds, cerealine feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn and oat 



