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referred to the Station. This has resulted in a great improve- 

 ment in the quality of the feeds which are sent to Maine. 



Occasionally brands of unregistered feeding stuffs are found 

 on sale in the State. This usually comes about because sales- 

 men ofifer their goods to the local dealers thinking that the 

 companies they represent have already taken care of the re- 

 quirements of the law. The local dealers do not at times give 

 sufficient attention to the requirements for written guarantees 

 to protect themselves in this respect, and it therefore sometimes 

 happens that they unintentionally violate the law in this respect. 

 Usually such brands are promptly registered by the manufac- 

 turers or shippers upon our calling their attention to the over- 

 sight. Dealers should always ascertain before purchase 

 whether or not the brands offered for sale are registered in 

 Maine, and a written guaranty should be obtained stating that 

 the feeding stuffs in question conforms in all respects to the 

 requirements of the Maine Feeding Stuffs Law. On the re- 

 ceipt of every new shipment of goods the dealer should take a 

 sample according to directions which are furnished by the 

 Station, and send at once for analysis. 



During the past season there have been several occasions to 

 refer the consideration of low grade goods to the Federal 

 Board of Food and Drug Inspection for investigation under the 

 National Law. Whenever a lot of goods which do not come 

 up to the guarantees is found an official sample is obtained if 

 possible together with papers to prove the interstate shipment. 

 The results of the examination and these papers are at once 

 referred to the Board of Food and Drug Inspection, and if the 

 Board deems this important a case is commenced against the 

 shipper. During the last season a number of cases, particularly 

 of low grade cottonseed meal, have thus been referred to the 

 authorities acting under the National Law. 



Chief Requirements oe Feeding Stuee Law. 

 Kinds of feeding stuffs coming under the law. The law ap- 

 plies to the sale, distribution, transportation, or the offering 

 or exposing for sale, distribution, or transportation of all arti- 

 cles of food used for feeding live stock and poultry, except 

 hays and straws, the whole seeds, and the unmixed meals made 



