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licity given to these fradulent goods and the cooperation of the 

 best of the large dealers they have quite largely disappeared or 

 are sold under a proper guarantee. 



There is so much profit in selling ground corn cobs and broom 

 corn at the price of wheat bran that the consumer must ever be 

 on the watch against this fraud. The safest thing is to buy only 

 well known, reliable brands of this class of goods. The bulletin 

 gives the names and analyses of many manufacturers of high 

 class brans, and other wheat offals. If consumers will see to it 

 that all of this class of feeds which they buy carries the name of 

 the miller there will be little likelihood of their being defrauded. 

 In case of any doubt, mail a sample to the Station and an 

 analyses will be made and the results reported promptly and 

 without any charge. 



THE WORKINGS OF THE LAW. 



It is now a little over four years since the law regulating the 

 sale of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs went into effect in 

 this State. At its enactment it was the first attempt to regulate 

 the sale of this class of maerials in this country, and it was with 

 some apprehension that its executive officers undertook to see 

 that its provisions were carried out. Some of the large manufac- 

 turers threatened that they would not send their goods into the 

 State if they had to come under police regulations, and as the 

 State of Maine was only a small consumer of commercial feeding 

 stuffs, it looked as though it might be an easy matter to carry out 

 this threat. The law had. however, been in existence only a few 

 months before other states began to see the benefits which we 

 were deriving. In less than a year Vermont enacted a law 

 identical with ours and now nearly all of the large dairy States 

 east of the Mississippi have enacted laws based upon the Maine 

 Feed Inspection Law. This action on the part of other States has 

 made the manufacturers much more willing to comply with the 

 requirements of the law, and to-day nearly all the large manufac- 

 turing concerns are placing upon their goods guarantees of their 

 protein and fat, whether they are intended for States that have 

 Feed Inspection Laws or have not. 



In 1896, so far as the small number of samples sent in by cor- 

 respondents could indicate, low grade cottonseed meal was 

 abundant in the market. The law went into effect October 1, 



