20 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, IQOO. 



1899, reported by the Director to the Secretary of Agriculture 

 who has given the formal notice to the delinquents required by 

 law. Subsequent violations by dealers who have been thus 

 notified will make them liable to prosecution without further 

 notice. 



The total number of violations thus reported are 38, of which 

 22 are for offering goods without having the tax tag affixed. In 

 nearly all of these cases the dealers had the tags in the office and 

 claimed that they attached them at the time of sale. In 16 

 instances the goods did not carry the guarantee. The goods 

 thus unbranded consisted of 4 lots of Elatchford's calf meal 

 (of which there is little sold] 1 lot of beef scrap for poultry, 1 

 lot of poultry- meal, 1 car of rice feed, 2 small lots of American 

 Cereal Company's poultry feed. 1 car Victor corn and oat feed, 

 and 7 lots of cottonseed meal. One of the cottonseed meals was 

 old low grade goods which were in stock ('and which the dealer 

 had analyzed by the Station in 1897; when the law went into 

 effect; the other cottonseed meals were high grade goods from 

 houses that have usually fully complied with the requirements of 

 the law. The dealer did not know that the rice feed was sub- 

 ject to the law. It was the first he had handled (and the first 

 reported to the Station;. Before selling, the law was complied 

 with. The American Cereal Company did not know that the 

 law applied to poultry foods and will in the future see that these 

 goods are tagged before they leave the mill. As Victor corn and 

 oat feed is all tagged at the mill, it would seem that a car not 

 intended for this State was shipped here. Two cars of feeds 

 with Vermont tags were shipped into the State ; the jobber pro- 

 vided Maine tags for them, however. 



Guarantees and Results of Analyses. 



As in the past cottonseed meal, both in number of brands and 

 in carloads sold, probably leads the concentrated feeds coming 

 under the law. Only one lot of Sea Island cottonseed meal was 

 found by the inspector and that was in the State in 1897 when 

 the law went into effect. 



One lot of Owl Brand cottonseed meal carried only 37.31 per 

 cent of protein. Five other samples carried from 43.19 per 

 cent to 45.06 per ent. As the sample low in protein carried 

 18.85 P er cent °f fet instead of 12 per cent as the others did, the 



