New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 419 
It is proper for the interested public to know that the total 
income to the State from license fees on concentrated feeding 
stuffs for the year 1900 will not exceed $2,600, which can neither 
be a burdensome tax upon a business that involves hundreds of 
thousands of tons of material, nor a large sum of money with 
which to inspect these goods. 
Objection has been made to the guaranteeing of the analysis 
of by-product commercial feeding stuffs on the ground that 
because of natural variations in the grains from which they are 
made their composition is not uniform. The answer to this is, 
that while the proportions of protein and fat in the unmixed 
by-products do vary within certain limits, there are minima that 
_may be used as the guarantees below which these percentages 
rarely fall. In the mixed feeds containing several components 
the composition is in the control of the manufacturer. Moreover, 
it is expected that in this particular common sense will prevail 
in the execution of inspection laws. It is possible to so adminis- 
ter affairs that only willful violators of the law will feel its 
force. Similar provisions relative to fertilizers have been in 
force in some states for over twenty-five years; and honest manu- 
facturers and dealers, while sometimes inconvenienced, have 
suffered no hardships therefrom. 
COMPLIANCH WITH THE LAW. 
It is probably too early to reach any conclusions as to how 
fully it will be possible to secure compliance with this new law. 
Already, so far as known, the manufacturers of the leading 
brands of commercial feeding stuffs have met its provisions. 
Doubtless some local mills and perhaps other parties are stil} 
doing an illegal business. In the single inspection which has so 
far been instituted, it has not been possible to reach every por- 
tion of the State and so some goods have up to this time escaped 
attention. Ultimately, however, cases of violation will be 
reached and they will then be treated as good judgment seems 
to indicate. } 
