Official Inspections 92. 23 



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 89. Four years ago this Station stopped pub- 

 lishing the numerical results of analyses of commercial feeding 

 stuffs. On the whole this has met with commendation. Because 

 of a few, chiefly jobbers, who prefer the numerical statement 

 of the results of the examination the reasons that led to the 

 change in method of reporting and which are still as pertinent 

 as they were four years ago are restated below. 



Instead of the columns showing the guaranteed and found 

 percentages of protein, fat and fiber on each sample, two col- 

 umns 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 better 

 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 

 important from the standpoint of the purpose of the law and 

 the statement of it is very apt to be misleading to the consumer 

 and may frequently be unfair to manufacturers. 



For the intent of the law clearly is that samples shall be 

 analyzed for the purpose of determining whether they are in 

 accord with their guarantees. To state that they have been 

 found so is to state the result of the analysis. To publish re- 

 sults showing that two samples of a given brand were both up 



