02 MAINK ACKUTI.TrR \I. KX PI- K I M 1- X T STATloX. I9O3. 



i::rouiul with the huHs. The Doten ('.rain Conipanv fiirnislicd 

 evidence that they bought the meal for hi.^h .i^rade goods. 



All of the violations were reported ti. ilic Commissioner 

 of Agriculture, as the law directs. The old law was defective, and 

 the attorney general gave an opinion that a ])r(jsccution could not 

 be maintained under its provisions. About 25 other samples of 

 low- grade cottonseed meal were sent to the Station by wholesale 

 houses during the winter; these were fur the most part samples 

 submitted by snippers from out of the State to wholesalers, and by 

 them sent to the Station because the Maine dealers suspected them 

 to be of poor quality. In this way many cars of poor goods were 

 undoubtedly kept out of the State. A few samples were sent 

 from cars already in the State, of which the importers were sus- 

 picious. So far as we know, these goods were invariably dis- 

 posed of as illustrated by the followdng letter : — "Referring to 

 recent correspondence regarding car of low grade C. S. meal 

 would say that we have disposed of this car and sent it out of the 

 State. ^^'e would not have considered selling it in this State 

 after we learned its analysis." While the old law, under the 

 peculiar conditions of the fall and early winter of 1902-3, did not 

 furnish full protection to the consumer, the amount of poor 

 cottonseed meal sold in the State was a very small percentage of 

 the total, and was in all probabilitv much lessened because of the 

 law. ' ! 



LINSEED MEALS. 



Linseed meal is made by grinding flax seed from which the oil 

 has been more or less completely extracted. "Old Process" con- 

 tains more fat and somewhat less protein than "New Process" 

 linseed meal. Rather more linseed meal was found in the State 

 in 1902-3 than usual and this is probably explained by the scarcity 

 of both gluten meal and cottonseed. Fifteen samples of linseed 

 meal are reported. 



The American Linseed Company have placed the same guar- 

 antee on their linseed meal as on the Cleveland Flax meal. This 

 latter is a linseed meal from which the fat has been more com- 

 pletely removed by extracting with naphtha. The naphtha is 

 removed by treatment with steam, which leaves a coarse flaky 

 product. As will be seen from the tables, the linseed meals were 

 for the most part well up to their guarantees. The flax meal 

 runs considerably higher in protein, how^ever, than does the lin- 

 seed meal of the same company. 



