FEEDING STUFF INSPECTION. 



Chas. D. Woods. 



Samples of the feeding- stuffs coming under the inspection 

 law, drawn in November, 1898, were analyzed and the results 

 were published in January, 1899, as bulletin 48 of the Station. 

 The inspectors visited most of the larger dealers again in Janu- 

 ary. At this time, samples were drawn from goods which had 

 not been previously sampled and the results of the analyses are 

 given in the pages which follow. In addition to the analyses 

 here reported quite a large number of samples sent to the Station 

 by correspondents have been analyzed and the results sent to 

 them. In only one instance have correspondents' samples shown 

 inferior goods and that is discussed below. The results of 

 these analyses are not here reported as they agree substantially 

 with the official samples. 



Cotton Seed Meal. During the year about 200 samples of cot- 

 ton seed meal have been examined, chiefly from the dairy sec- 

 tions of the State including the counties of Hancock, Waldo, 

 Penobscot, Piscataquis and the whole of the State west of the 

 Kennebec. Of these samples, two were low grade, unguaranteed 

 goods in Hancock county. Upon writing the dealers calling 

 attention to the violations of the law in selling unbranded goods, 

 they took the necessary steps to conform to the law. Three 

 samples of low grade goods found in Androscoggin and Penob- 

 scot counties were from the same wholesale house. The firm 

 claimed that their shipper made a mistake in tagging one of the 

 Androscoggin cotton seed meals and that instead of having tags 

 guaranteeing 43 per cent of protein, the meal should have carried 

 tags guaranteeing 25 per cent. The change of tags were made. 



The other Androscoggin and the Penobscot county low 

 grade meal was from the same car. This was one of ten cars 

 bought by the wholesale house. As soon as notified of the 

 inferior quality of the goods the guarantee was changed on the 

 stock in the hands of the retailers and the order for the other 

 cars (not then delivered) was countermanded. The law in this 

 instance not only brought it about that the low grade goods 

 in the State were properly guaranteed, but through its opera- 

 tion a number of cars of low grade cotton seed meal were kept 

 out of the State. 



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