OFFICIAL INSPECTIONS 72. IO3 



REGISTRATION AND RESULTS OF INSPECTION. 



The following pages contain the report of the analyses of 

 commercial feeding stuffs made since the publication of Offi- 

 cial Inspections 60. The tabular matter and the discussion of 

 the results of inspection were prepared by Harry M. Woods, 

 Feeding Stuffs Inspector under the Commissioner of Agricul- 

 ture. 



There are reported in all 951 samples, including all received 

 up to July I, 1915. Three hundred and six of the samples 

 were submitted by dealers manufacturers and consumers ; 

 64s were drawn by the inspectors of the Department of 

 Agriculture. In the course of their work the inspectors covered 

 the entire state with the exception of the extreme northern 

 and eastern parts. Practically all stores buying feed directly 

 from out-of-state points were visited at least once, most of 

 them twice, and some of the larger wholesale places, three or 

 more times. 



A reference to the tabular report of feeding stuffs by brands 

 will show that a different method of reporting the results of 

 the analyses has been adopted than that used in previous years. 

 Instead of the columns showing the guaranteed and found per- 

 centages of protein, fat and ffber on each sample, two columns 

 only will 'be found. In the left hand column is the name of 

 the brand, the manufacturer, the list of ingredients, the maxi- 

 mum percentage of crude fiber, and the minimum percentages 

 of fat and protein, as guaranteed by the manufacturer or 

 shipper in the certificate of registration filed with the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture. In the right hand column is a general 

 discussion not of each individual sample, but of the findings 

 in regard to each brand of feed as a whole. A reference to 

 the tabular pages will show the method of treatment 'bettei 

 than a description here. This method gives the information 

 for which a reader of these reports is looking in a form which 

 it is thought can be much more readily and fully taken in than 

 when it is necessary for him to go over the detailed reports of 

 each sample of each brand and make a similar summary for 

 'himself. The only information which could be obtained from 

 the former method of treatment which is not present in the 

 report this year is the amount that the samples found lawful 

 exceeded their guarantees. This amount of over-run is not 



