INSPECTION OF CONCENTRATED COMMERCIAL 
FEEDING STUFFS DURING THE 
SPRING OF51900.% 
W. H. JorpDan AND C., G. JENTER, 
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FEEDING STUFFS LEGISLATION, if 
The Legislature of New York at its session of 1899 enacted a 
law having for its purpose the regulation of the sale and inspec- 
tion of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs. This law con- 
stitutes chapter 510, Laws of 1899, which amends chapter 338, 
Laws of 1893. In order to make more clear one of its provisions 
it has been since amended, as per chapter 79, Laws of 1900. 
REASONS FOR SUCH LEGISLATION. 
. The primary occasion for such legislation is the introduction 
into our markets of a great number of by-products from various 
manufacturing processes which are more or less useful and valu- 
able for feeding farm animals, such as the oil meals, wastes from 
the manufacture of starch and glucose, brewers’ residues, by- 
products from the preparation of breakfast foods and the offals 
from the milling of wheat, rye and buckwheat. 
Such materials differ widely in composition and nutritive value, 
a fact which takes on great significance when we learn that these 
feeding stuffs are not always sold under their correct names and 
that the inferior ones are often used to adulterate those of a high 
grade in a way not easily detected. The cheapening of cotton- 
seed meal by grinding into it a proportion of hulls, the mixing of 
gluten products with corn meal, the extensive adulteration of 
mixed feeds with oat hulls and of wheat bran with corn cobs 

*Reprint of Bulletin No. 176. 
