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Dealers should require that when goods are handled in pack- 
ages the proper marks are affixed: 
Name and address of manufacturer or jobber. 
Name of brand. 
Guaranteed percentage of protein. 
Guaranteed percentage of fat. 
If the goods are bought in bulk, then the manufacturer or 
jobber should be asked to furnish the same statement for dis- 
play to customers. This is a simple matter, but it should be 
attended to in order to avoid any possible chance of action by 
the State and as a matter of justice to consumers. 
SUGGESTIONS TO CONSUMERS. 
There appears to be a growing tendency on the part of con- 
sumers to purchase proprietary brands of feeding stuffs that are 
mixtures of two or more by-products. Many of these mixtures 
are compounded for the purpose of providing a. medium in which 
inferior waste products lose their identity by mixing them with 
materials of good and well recognized quality. For instance, 
an “oat feed” may contain hominy feed, oat hulls and some- 
times enough of some material rich in protein, perhaps gluten 
meal, to bring the protein content of the mixture up to a desir- 
able proportion. Such a mixture is worth commercially what 
the hominy feed and gluten meal would cost and no more. If 
20 per ct. of oat hulls are present then the price of the mixtures 
should be 20 per ct. less than what a full ton of the hominy feed 
and gluten meal mixture would cost. Oat hull mixtures are 
not an imposition on the consumer, provided they are sold ata 
price proportional to the standard materials which the mixtures 
contain, otherwise they are bought at a loss. As a matter of 
fact, these mixtures are sold at about the prices which rule for 
feeding stuffs of standard grade. 
A glance at the previous tables will show the following range 
of prices: 
