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other hand about 44: per ct. of the feeds examined is made up 
of brands compounded from a variety of materials that bear names 
in many cases savoring of quackery. These brands, in a majority of 
cases, are simply a means of selling at grain prices inferior by- 
products that could not be floated on the market unless disguised in 
some way. The extensive sale of such mixtures is not creditable 
either to the intelligence or the business judgment of the purchasing 
public. It is no exaggeration to state that at the present time the 
conditions of the feeding stuff market are bad and are inimical to 
the financial interests of the farmers and other consumers. 
COMPARISON OF THE ACTUAL WITH THE GUARANTEED COMPOSITION. 
~ While the inspection of feeding stuffs under the sanction of law 
indirectly serves certain ends such as acquainting farmers with the 
character of the goods in the market, its chief purpose is to secure 
conformity between the manufacturer’s claims and the goods he 
offers for sale. To this end the State Department of Agriculture 
selects samples in the open market and forwards them to the Ex- 
perimental Station for analysis. 
In the table which follows the results of flies analyses are sum- 
marized; but the comparison between the actual and guaranteed 
composition of the separate brands must be sought in the bulletin. 
NUMBER OF BRANDS AND SAMPLES FOUND TO BE MATERIALLY BELOW THE 

GUARANTEE. 
¥ BELOW GUARANTEE 
i. Tal SR OY pa ees, A SF 
No. of No. of Per 
brands samples cent, 
emmmmrenper ey earvert fe get Poh tk aware Wet kyo ol baadls site's 6 8 46 
SIO eS ie mole on gs meZgand v wp sis eco elses 3 4 21 
Te aia tes ad whe, We'dy bl vie o 4s ale « 6 7 46 
ae gl Ne a sw dole erin e qe wars cao 0 2 2 33 
Seren Ieeeiiicts tOraitis. 4.00 lek wes ek 12 1 70 
OEE SRS 8 0c Ss On ee 4 4 13 
SeEtCe Wes OTHINS «.. Al dca faces Mees Biigs 3 3 20 
ICUS TCCKS «5. oti. ho bud is bce ee bee ne 19 19 17 
ME OC Se Bcc) je wre 4 babs dw la weie ete x= 5 5 II 
Poumreuoods (compounded)... 0.0. .0. ee. I I a 
RM tRET ONG TEES ss ee ee tae ees I I 9 
LS SS SE See at ene 8 are a 62 £60 
It seems that sixty-two brands or about 19 per ct. of the 
- whole number of brands examined fell below the guaranteed com- 
position to a serious extent. 
