418 _ Report oF INSPECTION WORK OF THE 
trade brands and guaranteed composition at the Experiment 
Station, and the annual inspection by State officials. 
It will be noticed that this law is quite similar in its provisions 
to the fertilizer laws which have been in successful operation in 
many States during the past twenty-five years. It is a recog- 
nition of the right of every purchaser of cattle foods to know 
what he is buying, and of the duty of the manufacturer or dealer 
to comply with his advertised statements. 
OBJECTIONS TO THD LAW. 
When the New York law was first proposed some interested 
parties feared that it would be inimical to trade interests. 
It was thought that the license fee would prove to be a finan- 
cial burden. It was not understood by all that the payment of a 
single fee by the manufacturers would meet the provisions of the 
law for the whole State, and that the dealers would probably bear 
no direct expense whatever. Of course manufacturers, especially 
those in other States, may refuse to pay this fee, but this would 
be a short sighted policy, as it would most certainly in the end 
result in shutting their goods out of New York trade. Such a 
refusal could not reasonably be based on the claim that this fee 
is a heavy money tax. Even if a manufacturer is putting out 
not over 100 tons annually, which is rarely the case, the tax per 
ton would only be 25 cents. In most cases where the output is 
hundreds and even thousands of tons the added expense of pro- 
duction is too small to be appreciated. Some of the small millers 
of the State may regard the license fee and cost of the neces: 
sary chemical analyses as an expense altogether too large, and 
it is well to remind all such that if they confine their business to 
the entire cereal grains, either separate or mixed, and to the 
offals from the cereal grains, and refrain from buying oat hulls 
or other by-products to mix with the ground grains, the law will 
in no way affect them. If they deal in such standard feeds as 
the oil meals, gluten products and brewers’ residues no fee will 
be required in most cases, because it generally will be paid by 
the manufacturer, 
