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(1) That for tlio purpose of defraying the expenses of feeding-stuff Inspec- 
tion Hif State should preferably make Q direct appropriation. 
(2) Thai the following materials should be exempt from the provisions of 
feeding-stuff laws: Hays and Btraws and whole unmixed seeds, such as wheat, 
rye. barley. <»ats. Indian corn, buckwheat, broom corn, peas, and the unmixed 
meals of the entire grains Of BUCh seeds. 
(3) The term "concentrated feeding stuff" should Include linseed meals, 
COtton-Seed meals, cottonseed feeds. | tea meals, eoeoanut meals, gluten meals, 
gluten feeds, maize \\'^\-<. starch \'vn\s. sugar foods, dried brewers' grains, 
dried distillers' grains, malt sprouts, hominy feeds, eoroaline foods, germ Pods. 
rice meals, oat foods, corn and oa1 chops, corn and oat foods, corn bran, ground 
hoof or fish scraps, condimental foods, poultry foods, stock foods, patented pro- 
prietary or trade-marked stock and poultry foods, and all other materials of a 
similar nature not included in section 2 above. Where practicable the by- 
products from the milling of wheat, rye. and buckwheat should be Included 
under the requirements of the laws. 
(4) That a legible printed statement should ho affixed to or printed on each 
package containing a feeding stuff named in section ."». giving the net welghl of 
the package, the name and address of the manufacturer or importer, the name, 
brand, or trade-mark under which the article is sold, and the guaranteed 
analysis showing the percentage of crude protein and of crude fat and a 
maximum of fiber which shall not be exceeded. 
The law should provide that the chemical analysis, including determinations 
Of crude liber, crude protein, and crude fat. shall be made by the official 
methods of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 
If the feeding stuff is sold in bulk or put up in packages belonging to the 
purchaser, the agent or dealer shall furnish him with a certified statement of 
the net weight of the lot. the name and address of the manufacturer or importer, 
the brand or trade-mark under which said article was sold, and the percentage 
of crude protein and crude fat which said article is guaranteed to contain as 
determined by the official methods of the Association of Official Agricultural 
Chemists. 
I 5 ) That a certified copy of the statement in section -1, above, be filed with 
the executive officer each year. 
((5) That the law should contain a penalty, by fines only, for violations of its 
provisions. ' 
The committee recommends to the Association of American Agricultural Col- 
leges and Experiment Stations the adoption of the recommendations 1 to 6, in- 
clusive, with the suggestion that this or some other committee should be 
instructed to use its efforts to secure the end in view by using its influence to aid 
in securing uniform legislation in the several States. 
H. J. Wheeler. 
Chas. D. Woods, 
E. II. Jenkins, 
H. P. Arm shy. 
M. A. Scovell, 
Committee. 
H. J. Wheeler, of Rhode Island. At the meeting last year your committee 
made certain recommendations in regard to feeding-stuff laws in the United 
States. This recommendation went to the section on agriculture and chemistry, 
and was referred to the general session, and owing to objections which were 
made to one clause it was referred again to your committee. The committee 
begs leave to report the recommendations made last year with the modification 
of section 1. Section 1 read last year : " That for the purpose of defraying the 
expenses of feeding-stuff inspection the State should make a direct appropria- 
tion, or where this is impracticable a brand tax should be levied. In view of the 
experience of Maine and Vermont a tonnage tax is not to be recommended." 
Your committee now recommends that this read as follows : " That for the 
purpose of defraying the expenses of feeding-stuff inspection the State should 
preferably make a direct appropriation." In other respects the recommenda- 
tions stand exactly as they did last year. 
One other matter was referred to your committee, a communication received 
from Doctor Hopkins, of Illinois, which I believe was presented to the section 
