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may be attached to the bill of sale, invoice, bill of lading or 

 other schedule giving the name and amount of feed stuff. In 

 case of car load lots, the car number should appear. 



In case the dealer cannot obtain a written guaranty from the 

 parties from whom he purchases, the only safe thing is to take 

 a sample from the car immediately on its arrival and before it 

 is accepted, and send to the Experiment Station, together with 

 the name of feed and manufacturer and the guarantees. A 

 prompt free analysis will be made and results reported. 



INSPECTION FOR 191O-II. 



In the tables which follow are given the results of the exam- 

 ination of the samples of feeding stuffs received from dealers 

 and collected by the inspector from April, 1910, to March, 191 1. 



THF RESULTS OF INSPECTION OF FEEDING STUFFS. 



The improvement in the feeding stuffs situation noted in the 

 last Official Inspections of feeding stuffs, No. 23, has con- 

 tinued through the last year and the results of the inspection 

 just completed show that a still better class of feeds is being 

 handled and used than last season. 



This improvement is probably in a measure due to the con- 

 tinued interest and practice of the dealers in submitting sam- 

 ples of the goods, about which they had any doubt, to the Sta- 

 tion for analysis before putting them on the market, and we 

 believe that if the farmers were only as much alive to the situ- 

 ation and as much interested in the composition of the goods 

 the}^ buy a still more improved condition would be brought 

 about. 



The cottonseed meals for the most part have run well up to 

 the guarantees, particularly early in the season it was notice- 

 able that a better class of goods was being shipped into the 

 State than had been coming in recent years. One brand, how- 

 ever, later in the season fell considerably below the guaranty 

 in protein in several official samples taken by the inspector. 

 These are under investigation and some of them have already 

 been referred to the United States Board of Food and Drug 

 Inspection for prosecution. 



Linseed oil meal does not appear to be in very much demand, 

 (Discussion continued on page 58.) 



