INSPECTIONS. 



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any brand. The following analyses show how these inferior 

 and adulterated sroods run. 



ANALYSES OF ADULTERATED COTTON SEED MEALS. 



Number. 



■|i 



u 

 £h p. 



&^ P< 



Number. 



1^ 



So 

 u 





SOOij 



26.00 

 •29.94 

 26.19 

 •2-2.00 

 29.75 

 25.63 



5.6a 



6.78 



9^6^ 

 10.59 



S(i22 



26.25 

 34.00 

 20.13 

 21.19 

 26.94 

 25.13 





8009 



8025 



8.36 



SOlO 



80-28 



4.57 



8015 



S016 



S043 



8048 



5.88 



801S 



8062 













Goods of this type were very abundant in this State in 1897, 

 but there are almost none of them to be found at present. In 

 the spring of 1898 the inspectors reported a few lots of these 

 goods. In November, 1898, only two lots of low grade cotton- 

 seed meal were found by the inspectors, and these samples were 

 guaranteed in accordance with their low grade. It would seem 

 as though the inspection law has driven them to other states. 

 The chemist of the Rhode Island Station under date of March 

 10, 1898, wrote inquiring regarding the working of the law and 

 said, *T regret to say that Rhode Island is becoming the dump- 

 ing ground of adulterated cottonseed meal, et cetera." This 

 is also indicated by the following received from a large manu- 

 facturer of cottonseed meal. "You will please print tags as 

 ordered for x x x x Mill and send same by freight instead of 

 express. We have discovered that the meal we anticipated 

 shipping into Maine market was not of sufficient quality to meet 

 requirements of your State. We have, therefore, concluded not 

 to ship as anticipated. We will, later in the season, have a very 

 nice grade of meal at x x x x Mill at which time we will place 

 same in Maine market." 



Occasionally the Station has had sent to it by correspondents 

 samples of suspected meal, but with one exception analyses have 

 shown them to be up to guarantee. Not all dark colored meal 

 is adulterated and not all bright yellow meal is free from adulter- 

 ation. 



The law has proven itself a decided advantage to the manu- 

 facturer and dealer in honest cottonseed meal, and is practically 



