IjS MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I908. 



If immediately on the arrival of a car, the dealer will open 

 not less than 6 packages and take samples in accordance with 

 directions which will be sent on application and forward to me 

 by prepaid express, a prompt free analysis will be made of the 

 sample and the result reported promptly. In case the goods 

 should not prove to be up to the guaranty under which they 

 were sold, the dealer will then have a chance to immediately put 

 in a claim for rebate which I am confident will, under these con- 

 ditions, be allowed by a reputable shipper. Furthermore the 

 dealer can change the guaranty on the packages so it shall be 

 in accord with fact. He will thus protect himself from impo- 

 sition or mistake on the part of the shipper, and from the penal- 

 ties of violating the feed inspection law, and protect his 

 customers as well. 



In case my deputy should find samples of cottonseed meal 

 bought in carload lots that should fall below the guaranty, sam- 

 ples of which had not been submitted to me as above outlined, 

 I should feel it my duty to at once institute proceedings against 

 the dealer for violation of the law regulating the sale of concen- 

 trated commercial feeding stuffs. 



CHAS. D. WOODS, Director." 



In response to this a very unusual number of samples were 

 submitted by dealers, particularly early in the season before the 

 quality of the shipments from the 1907 crop was assured. 



RESULTS OF THE ANALYSIS. 

 The results of the analysis show that practically all of the 

 samjDles received from the crop of 1907 were of good quality. 

 All of the samples numbered lower than 2719, with the excep- 

 tion of those ranging from 2001 to 2087, were from the 1906 

 crop. The other numbers were for the most part from the 

 1907 crop. It will be noted that these analyses ran for the most 

 part well up to the guaranty. It has not been unusual during 

 the present winter for cottonseed meals to carry as high as 44, 

 45, 46 and even 47 per cent protein and only in rare instances 

 have they fallen below 40 per cent protein. In case the goods 

 have run below the guaranty of 41 per cent, the dealers have 

 in most instances changed the guaranties to accord with fact, 

 before the good have been distributed. 



