OFFICIAL INSPECTIONS 'J2. 



Feeding Stuffs — Continued. 



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Brand, Makeb and Guahanties. 



Results of Examination. 



Greene's 5% Meat Mash. Greene Chick 

 Feed Co., Marble head, Mass. Composed of 

 meat scrap.s, corn meal, wheat, shell lime 

 hominy feed, flax screenings, oats, wheat 

 bran, salt. Contains not more than 7 per 

 cent, crude fiber, and not less than 3 per 

 cent, fat (on 1915 certificate, not less than 

 5 per cent, fat) and 12 per cent, protein. 

 Registered in 1914 and 191.5. 



Greene 's Growing Feed for Chickens. Greene 

 Chick Feed Co., Marblehead, Mass. Com- 

 posed of fish scraps, yellow and white corn, 

 dried milk, wheat, oats, corn cockle, barley, 

 yellow foxtail, winter rape, mustard, salt, 

 meat scraps. Contains not more than 5 

 per cent, crude fiber and not less than 3 per 

 cent, fat and 12 per cent, protein. Not reg- 

 istered in 1914. Registered in 1915. 



Greene's Intermediate Chick Feed. Greene 

 Chick Feed Co., Marblehead, Mass. Com- 

 posed of yellow and white corn, wheat, 

 oats, recleaned field seed, Kaffir corn. Con- 

 tains not more than 3 per cent, fiber and 

 not less than 3 per cent, fat and 10 per 

 cent, protein. Not registered in 1914. 

 Registered in 1915. 



Greene 's Old Fashioned Meat Scraps. Greene 

 Chick Feed Co., Marblehead, Mass. Com- 

 posed of meat, bone and gristle. Contains 

 not more than 3 per cent, crude fiber, and 

 not less than 5 pei cent, fat and 30 per 

 cent, protein. Registered in 1914 and 1915. 



Greene's Poultry Food. Greene Chick Feed 

 Co., Marblehead, Mass. Composed of 

 fish, meat and bone. Contains not more 

 than 5 per cent, crude fiber, and not less 

 than 3 per cent, fat and 40 per cent, pro- 

 tein. Not registered in 1914. Registered 

 in 1915. 



Greene's Scratch Feed. Greene Cfiick Feed 

 Co., Marblehead, Mass. Composed of 

 corn, wheat, oats, barley, screenings, sun- 

 flower seed. Contains not more than 5 per 

 cent, crude fiber, and not less than 3 per 

 cent, fat and 10 per cent, protein. Regis- 

 tered in 1914. Not registered in 1915. 



Xtragood Scratch Feed. Griswold & Mac- 

 kinnon, St. Johnsbury, Vt. Composed of 

 wheat, cracked corn, barley, oats, buck- 

 wheat, Kaffir corn, milo maize, and sun- 

 flower seed. Contains not less than 3 per 

 cent, fat and 11 per cent, protein. Not 

 registered in 1914. Registered in 1915. 



Dry Mash. J. B. Ham Co., Lewiston, Me. 

 Composed of corn meal, ground oats, 

 wheat bran, wheat middlings, linseed 

 meal, meat scraps, charcop.l and alfalfa. 

 Contains not more than 12 per cent, crude 

 fiber, and not less than 3^ per cent, fat and 

 15 per cent, protein. Registered in 1914 

 and 1915. 



Two official samples were both up to guar- 

 antee in protein. One was examined for 

 fiber and fat. It carried the 1914 fat 

 guarantee of 3 per cent. On that basis it 

 was up to guarantee in fat but slightly 

 high in fiber. It was not up to the 1915 

 fat guarantee. It contained very many 

 weed seeds. 



The only official sample obtained was in 

 accord with guarantee in protein and fat 

 but over 3 per cent, high in fiber. 



The only official sample obtained was in 

 accord with guarantee in protein and fat 

 and carried 6.27 per cent, fiber. 



The only official sample obtained was in 

 accord with guarantee in protein, fiber 

 and fat. 



No goods of this brand were found by 

 inspectors. 



No goods of this brand were found by 

 inspectors,. 



Two official samples were both misbranded 

 in that the guarantees on the label were 

 not in accord with the filed certificate. 

 Both labels gave the protein guarantee 

 as 10 per cent. On that basis they were up 

 to guarantee, but on the basis of the 

 certificate guarantee of 11 per cent., they 

 were both over one-half per cent, below. 

 One sample was examined foi fiber and 

 fat. It was up to the label guarantee of 

 2.5 per cent, in fat but below the cer- 

 tificate guarantee of 3 per cent. It was 

 in accord with the label guarantee of 5 

 per cent, in fiber. 



One dealer's sample was up to guarantee 

 in protein. The only official sample 

 obtained was in accord with guarantea 

 in protein, fiber and fat. No weed seeds 

 were found. 



