Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-29
Feeding STUFF Inspection.


cent of this sum is paid for corn, oats,
and the wheat oflals, which are of a
fairly uniform composition. Several
hundreds of thousands are spent, how
ever, for the by.products of sundry
manufacturing processes, such as cotton
seed and linseed meal, gluten and oat
feeds, ETC., which are more or less
variable in composition, aud open to
aduteration. These materials some
times bear misleading names, and their
selling prices often have no relation to
their value as feeds. These conditions,
among others, have led to the passage in
practically all of the northeastern states
of a law known as the Feeding-Stufis
Inspection law. Such a law was passed
at the last session of the legislature in
Vermont. 1t places the sampling and
analysis of these feeds IN the hands of
the experiment station, which publishes
the results of its inspection work from
time to time. The law requires the
wholesaler to state upon each package
his name and address, the brand, weight,
and percentages of protein and fat that
the goods are guaranteed to contain. A
tax of ten cents ton is laid by the law
upon all cotton.seed, linseed and gluten
meals and feeds. corn and oat chops and
feeds and provenders other than pure
grains ground together The law took
effect the lst of July last. 1t is as yet
too young to have proved its worth.
The condition of the trade in the north
eastern portion of this country was such,
however, that this class enactment is
bound to result, as it has already done
in several states, to the advantage OF
the farmer, who is made more certain OF
the quality of the goods he buys. 1t is
fair to presume that as time goes on the
same desirable outcome which followed
the regulation of the fertilizer trade by
law will result from the operations OF
the feedngstuffs act. All bags of the
materials described above should now
bear green tag certifying to the pay
ment of the inspection tax, and the sale
of any and all goods of this class not
carrying this tag is illegal.
Windham County's Centennarian Dead.
Gardner Upham, Windham's centen
!
county, died Sept. 90 after few
days illness. at his home in that place al
the age of 100 years. months and Is
days. The end came from the genera
breaking down of old age rather thar
any particular disease. A native Of
Gullford, the.son of Jonathan and Mary
Whitney, Upham, and born May ,
1893, one of family of six boys and fiv,
girls, his oyhood was spent in Windhan
and Chester and his young manhood il
Grafton and Boston. where he worked a
the brickmakers' trade summers, making
the journey there on foot in the spring
with his pack on his back and returning
in the fall in like manner. He belonged
to the Boston militia and In 1924 he saw
Lafayette, when the noted Frenchmal
reviewed the. troops with Gov. Brooks
In 1871 he moved loads at Windham
where he has since Lived. In politics h
was an old-time whig, then an Abolition
list and a Republican ever since tina
party was organized. He took great in
terest in the campaign of 1910 and wa
prominent in carrying out the pro
gramme for the great rally on Strattol
mountain. He had never been seriousl,
sick and has employed physician yer,
little. When asked what was the prin
cipal thing conducive of his living Il
such great age replied, excepting coo
and being regular in all my habits" III
had been married three time. His frs
wife was Eunice Emery, daughter o
Amos Emery of Windham. They wer
married in 1922. BY this marrlag
there were four children, Mrs. Francin
y, Bemis and Miss Hannah Upham O
this town, Mrs. Eugenia +. Dodge o
Malta, ILL.,, and James Upham, wh
died while preparing for the ministry
His second wife was Mrs. Maril
(Stoddard) Wyman, sister of the lat
Judge Abeshai Stoddard, whom he mar
ried in 1850. He was last married il
1872 to Mrs. Elizabeth (Moore) Abbott
who died in 1879.
Boston's Food Fair.
Bigger and better than ever the fourtl
Boston Food Fair will oren in Mechanic
building Oct. ,, under the auspices ant
personal management of the Bosto
Retail Grocers' association, whose tire
ed successes. Food products, in infnlt
variety, attractively displayed an
practically demonstrated, will includ
many novelties; while multitude o
devices and appliances of utility in tn
home will broaden the scope and increas
the attraptivenaSs of tho exhibition