Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-22

Madison, Wis, March 16-That
the character of the concentrated
feeding stuffs sold in Wisconsin during
the past year has improved over the
standard of previous years to the ex
tent that the percent age of adulter-
ated or suspicious feeds has been
reduced from % to IL. per cent, is
one of the interesting facts shown
by the new bulletin on licensed com
mercial feeding stuff prepared by
Professor F. w. Vol and George
A Olson and issued by the University
of Wisconsin Agricultural, Experiment
Station The number of deficiencies
in the guaranteed composition OF the
licensed feeds was smaller this year
than at any time since the feed law
went into operation five years ago.
Fewer mixed feeds of inferior grade
were offreed for sale than in the past
years. The Improvement in quality
is more marked in the case of those
containing ground corn and oats than
in any other class of feeds. During
the first year of the operation of the
law, 1902, fifty-nIne per cent of the
number of samples collected and an
alyzed by the University of Wiscon-
sin Experiment Station officials were
either unquestionably adulterated or
suspicious. In the past year not one
OF the samples OF ground corn and oats
collected was adulterated, and but two
suspicious lots were found.
Great improvement has also been
made in the strict adherance to the
guarantee on the license issued. The
number of cases in which the feeds
were found to be deficient in nutritive
qualities guaranteed In the composition
is lower this year than. in any proceed
ing year. Samples of oil meal sold
IN Wisconsin this year, for instance,
in all cases contained as much or more
protein, in fact, than was guaranteed
by the manufacturer.
Several unsuccessful attempts to
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during the year, but no serious adul-
terations have been practiced. The
adnixture of undesirable materials,
such as screenings to sf1our-mlll
feeds, barley hulls to malt sprouts,
or the manufacture. of refuse feeds
from poorly cleaned seed from flour
or oil mills, have been found by the
inspectors In some cases, but they
found no dangerous adulterants such
as the rice hulls found in some of the
samples taken last year. Both farm
er and dealers feel that the feed mar
ket in the state is in better condition
than ever before as regards the quail
ty of the feed offered for sale, ant
reputable dealers have less to feal
from dishonest competition.
During the present year; as in thu
past, the Wisconsin College of Agri
culture has had the hearty co-opera
ton of feed dealers and farmers il
all parts of the state in the enforce
ment of the law. The large major
ity of the feed dealersap preciate that
they are benefited by the law because
it enables them TO guarantee the pur
ity and the quality of the fecos which
they handle and protect them from
dishonest competition. 1t also pro
tects consumers from fraud and decep
tion in the feed business and give
CHI oor,t
that do not come up to the guarantee
of the manufacturer or dealer.
The chemical department of tn
University of Wisconsin College o
Agriculture is prepared to arrang
with manufacturers of commercial
feeding stuffs for analysis of sample
of feeds drawn by purchasers of car
load lots according to the directi on
gwen without expense to the latter
This arrangement has been made TO
the purpose of enabling manufacturer
to further guarantee the quality o
their goods and ito render it possibl
for purchasers of feeds to check j
the actual composition of each singh
carload lot purchased by them.
The law is enforced through the Ur
iversity of Wisconsin Agricultural ES
pertinent Stations inspection, sam
ping, and publication of reports o
every brand of commercial feedin
stuff offered for sale In the state
When feed is found which, upon ar
alysis, is deficient in nutritive quail
ties guaranteed on the license,
which contains an injurious substance
and consumers are warned of the fat
in the experiment station inspector