FEED STUFF I,AWS AND FEED ADULTERANTS III 



that are worth considering are, that the prices of grains are 

 getting higher and the population of this country is increasing 

 so that the feeder may be forced in the future to utilize the 

 wastes and low grade by-products to a certain extent. 



Adulteration of Feeds. — If it were not for the protection our 

 feed laws give us, we would find it hard to purchase good 

 standard products. A manufacturer could easily adulterate his 

 feed and sell it for the genuine article if he knew it would not 

 be subject to inspection and analysis. For instance, a manu- 

 facturer could easily introduce ground cotton seed hulls into' his 

 cotton seed meal and sell the product with any guarantee he 

 pleased. He could sell this mixed product under the name of 

 cotton seed meal, when in reality it is cotton seed meal and 

 ground cotton seed hulls (cotton seed feed). Of course the 

 manufacturer could afford to sell the mixed product at a lower 

 price than pure cotton seed meal, but for the nutrients received 

 the purchaser would perhaps pay much more than for cotton 

 seed meal. Many of the laws permit manufacturers to sell low 

 grade products provided they are not injurious, but require that 

 the true name or a trade name be employed. Perhaps the manu- 

 facturer would not care to put out a mixture of cotton seed meal 

 and cotton seed hulls and label it so, but he would rather give it 

 a trade or brand name, as Cracker Feed. 



Values of low Grade Feeds. — The purchasers of low grade 

 feeds should know their values. The Experiment Stations or 

 the State Boards of Agriculture are continually sending out 

 bulletins which comment and- set forth the values of commercial 

 feeds so there is no excuse for a feeder, in states having feed 

 laws, allowing a spurious article to be sold to him. In all feeds 

 the principles as cited are true. It is unfortunate but possible, 

 for manufacturers to put out feeds that resemble standarti 

 products, which are badly adulterated. These adulterated feeds 

 are generally ground so fine that the casual observer would not 

 notice the adulteration. 



Feed Adulterants. — In some of our molasses feeds, wheat ad- 

 mixtures, corn and oat feeds, feed mixtures, cotton seed feeds, 

 mixed oats and barley, and similar mixtures, materials are often 



