The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-03
ADULTERATED FEEDS.

University of Wisconsin Agricultural
Experiment Station Issues VaIua-
Bile Bulletin.
wisconsin farmers, as well as the
manufacturers and dealers in stock
foods, are inclined to believe the
world is growing better when they ex-
anime the report of the University of
Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment
station, which has just been issued in
bulletin form, showing the work of
the department in the past year. The
statistics show large decrease in the
adulteration OF manufactured stock
foods sold in this state, and the worse
forms of adulterated foods have been
driven from the state entirely owing
to the vigilance of the experiment sta
ton inspectors. Stock raisers have
been saved hundreds of dollars by the
elimination of foods containing adul-
Grants which bring sickness and
cath to animals, and manufacturers
nd dealers have been protected from
he competition of dealers in low
rade feeds.
Wisconsin is one of the twelve
tates of the Union having pure food
avs. The first law of the kind was
passed in Connecticut in 1895, and
,Visconsin's legislature followed with
similar law in 1901 Michigan is the
,nly other state of the West or Mid
10 in
erests of farmers, stock raisers and
conscientious dealers and manufac-
.urers.
All over the state the experiment
tatiOn has met with hearty cO-opera-
ion from both consumers and pro-
ducers in the work of raising the
standard of stock foods. They have
ent their assistance in every possible
way, reporting suspicious car loads,
sending samples for analysis and la
DoOing such as were declared below
GRADE In accordance with the pro-
7isions of the law forty-two manufac-
turers and dealers have taken out Ii
censes for sixty-one different brands
concentrated feeding stuffs in this
1ealers appreciate the benefit of the
law, which enables them to guarantee
he purity of the feeds which they
landle, and protects them from dis
honest competition. During the year
G45 feed stores in 191 different cities
and towns of the state have been Wis
ted, some of them a number of times.
Milwaukee, for instance, has been Wis
tied eight times; Waukesha, four
times, and twenty-eight other cities
nd towns two or three times.
fThe plan has been to collect sam
ses of all licensed feeding stuffs and
alp corn and oat feeds of different
Origin. Samples of mill refuse feeds,
especially wheat fran or middlings,
we're only taken when the feed
seemed suspicious as regards purity
or composition. Thus the number of
these feeds subjected to chemical
analysis was limited, compared with
earlier years when samples of outputs
from all the largest mills supplying
the market in Wisconsin were Sc
cured The number of samples col
lected by the state inspectors during
1905 was 213, and the number for
warded to the station by dealers and
farmers was n, making a total of 200
samples received during the year. All
Of these were subjected to chemical
analyses, the results of which are
sfven in the bulletin. The cases of
he firms which sold feeds in violation
" the law have been taken up by the
experiment. station, and in the MAORI
V of cases the matter has been set
ed by the withdrawal of the goods
ON sale in this state.
In order to keep dealers and manu-
ucturers informed in regard to the
ality of their goods, the results of
feed analyses are reported to both
mail Immediately on completion of
analyses. In case of deficiencies
the guaranteed composition, the
anufacturers are enabled to rectify
ltters by changing either their
4thOds of manufacture or the guar
tees under which the product is TO
sold Since inspection is continued
Oughout the year, neither manufac-
err nor dealer can plead ignorance
deterioration occurring in the lat
part of the year.
he number of samples which were
I'd to be deficient in protein and
contents was lower last year than
re year previous. But the percent
of deficiencies is still so large as
urnish conclusive proof that the
Gus manufacturers Of licensed
ling stuffs do not pay much atten-
to the chemical composition of
foods which they put on the mar
in this state, and generally place
r guarantees of valuable food COM
ents considerably higher than they
e reason to expect the feeds will
ch. The figures also give evidence
he Indifference of buyers of feeds
to whether the guarantees of the
nufacturers are met or not. No
manent improvement in this re-
ct can be hoped for until purchas-
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