FEEDING STUFF INSPECTION. 6l 



1897. The following tabulation shows the number and char- 

 acter of samples of cottonseed meal sent to the Station by cor- 

 respondents and collected by the inspector, beginning with the 

 winter of 1897-8. Under high grade are included samples 

 carrying from 42 to 52 per cent of protein. With one exception 

 (in 1900-01) all of the low grade samples carried less than 26 

 per cent protein. 



SAMPLES OF COTTONSEED MEAL EXAMINED. 

 Winter of High grade. Low grade. Total. 



1897-8 56 12 68 



1898-9 103 4 107 



1899-1900 95 4 99 



1900-1 57 4* 61 



1901-2 58 58 



*3 from saine lot. 



None of the low grade goods in 1897-8 were guaranteed as low 

 grade. Eight of the samples of low grade goods found in the 

 later years were guaranteed to carry less than 25 per cent of pro- 

 tein and the consumer had only himself to blame if he bought 

 them for what they did not claim to be. 



That low grade cottonseed meal has practically disappeared 

 from the Maine market is a fact. It is also a fact that this dis- 

 appearance began after the law was enacted and has steadily pro- 

 gressed. During the present season neither the correspondents 

 of the Station nor its inspector have thus far found a single 

 sample of low grade cottonseed meal in the Maine market. If 

 the law regulating the sale of concentrated feeding stuffs has 

 accomplished nothing else, this driving low grade cottonseed 

 meal out of the Maine market is worth to the agriculture of the 

 State more than the cost of inspection. 



Food Frauds and Humbugs. 



Although they do not come under the provisions of the Feed- 

 ing Stuffs Law, there are certain materials of a more or less 

 fraudulent nature offered in our markets to stock men and others 

 about which words of warning offered in the past must be 

 repeated. The most recent is the 



