80 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 1918. 



During the past season there have been several occasions to 

 refer the consideration of low grade goods to the Federal Board 

 of Food and Drug Inspection for investigation under the National 

 Law. Whenever a lot of goods which do not come up to the guar- 

 antees is found an official sample is obtained if possible together 

 with papers to prove the interstate shipment. The results of the 

 examination and these papers are at once referred to the Board 

 of Food and Drug Inspection, and if the Board deems this impor- 

 tant a case is commenced against the shipper. During the last 

 season a number of cases, particularly of low grade cottonseed 

 meal, have thus been referred to the authorities acting under the 

 National Law. 



Description of Table. 



The first column gives the Station number assigned to each 

 sample. The next column shows the kind of feed, the br^rd und?r 

 which it is sold, and the name of the shipper or maker. The three 

 next columns gives the composition as claimed by the maker or 

 shipper and the last column gives the results of the examination. 

 The number of samples examined, how many were in accord w : th 

 guaranty, how many were not in accord and in what respects, the 

 number of weed seeds found (if samples were examined for weed 

 seeds), and any other information that has a bearing on the lawful 

 sale of the goods, are given for each brand. In the discussion, 

 when a sample is spoken of as "slightly" below (in the case of 

 fiber, above) guaranty, it means that the deviation from guaranty 

 was so small that another sample from the same lot of goods might 

 be found in accord. The significance of a "slight" deviation de- 

 pends to a considerable extent upon the findings in regard to the 

 other constitutents of the same sample and other samples of the 

 same brand. In the weed seed enumeration, a "few" means from 

 two to eight in a half pint sample ; "some" means eight to fifteen; 

 "many" not more than seventy-five ; and "very many" means up 

 two per cent of weed seeds. When practicable, the weed seeds 

 found in the samples are given in detail ; when the varieties are too 

 numerous for a detailed statement, the quantity found is given. 



