THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 301 



STOCK FOOD LAW. 



Regulating the manufacture, sale and analysis of concentrated 

 commercial feed stuffs for feeding farm live stock and domes- 

 tic animals generally, and making it the duty of the State Food 

 Commissioner to prosecute person or persons violating any pro- 

 vision of said law and fixing a license fee, etc.; approved May 



1 8, 1905, in force Jidy i, 1905. 



AN ACT to regidate the sale and analysis of concentrated feed- 

 ing stuffs. 



Section i. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 

 nois, represented in the General Assembly : Every lot or parcel 

 of concentrated commercial feed stuffs, as defined in Section 2 of 

 this Act, used for feeding farm live stock, sold, or offered or ex- 

 posed for sale within this State, shall have affixed thereto, in a 

 conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a plainly printed state- 

 ment, clearly and truly certifying the name, brand or trade mark, 

 under which the article is sold for feeding purposes, the name and 

 address of the manufacturer, importer or dealer, the net weight 

 of the package, and the minimum percentage of crude protein, 

 reckoning one per cent of nitrogen equal to six and one-fourth 

 per cent of protein, crude fiber, and crude fat which it contains ; 

 the several constituents to be determined by the methods adopted 

 by the Association of Ofiicial Agricultural Chemists of the 

 United States. If the feed stuff is sold in bulk, or if it is put up 

 in packages belonging to the purchaser, the agent or the dealer 

 shall upon the request of the purchaser, furnish him with the cer- 

 tified statement described in this section. 



Section 2. The term ''concentrated commercial feed stuff," 

 as used in this Act, shall include cotton seed meals, linseed meals, 

 pea meals, bean meals, peanut meals, cocoanut meals, gluten 

 meals, gluten feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar feeds, suc- 

 crene feeds, and all oil meals of all kinds, dried distillers' grains, 



