The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-05
REJECTED STOCK FEED UNDER
PURE FOOD LAW.
Three Car Loads of it We're
Shipped Out of Georgia.

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The Mississippi legislature now
has under discussion the passage
of a pure feed bill. Certainly
there will be practically no oppo-
sltlon to it's final passage, al
though the Herald understands
there is strong lobby by inter-
ested parties against it. Missis-
sippi is now the dumping ground
for worthless stock feeds that
have been barred out of other
states, and for this stuff our peo-
pie are paying fancy prices. This
practice should be stopped, for it
is an imposition on the purchas-
ers and a fraud upon the inno-
cent, dumb brutes to whom this
stuff is fed.
Not long since three cars of
this worthless stuff that had been
shipped into Georgia and there
condemned, was consigned to
Mississippi where it was sold.
Mr.. F. E. Middleton, son of R.
M. Middleton, of this county, is
active in trying to get our legis-
lature to pass the pure feed bill,
and has spent several days in
jackson. He has the promised
support of numbers of members,
and among these the Herald is
glad to note every member from
Yazoo.
That the public may know of
the fraud that is being practiced
in the sale of these worthless
feeds, the Herald presents the
following furnished by Mr.. Mid
dleton:
Atlanta, Ca, Oct. 9.-Under
the new pure food law the State
Department of Agriculture for
the first time today ordered the
rejection in large quantities of
feedstuffs shipped into the state.
Upon the report of Inspector
?. A. Methvin, the department
has ordered the rejection of
three car loads of stock feed
shipped into the state by the
Great Western Cereal Company.
OF Chicago, because it contained
oat hulls, which is in violation of
the Georgia pure food law. One
OF these cars were shipped to
Columbus, another went to Ath-
ems, and the third was caught in
Atlanta. A representative of
the company, who came here to
see about the matter stated that
the stuff was unintentionally sent
to Georgia, it having been in
tended fos another state, where
the requirements are not the
same. Atlanta Constitution.
Miss. AGRIC'L AND MECH'L COL
LEGE, Feb. 19, 1908.
Mr.. F. E. Middleton,
Jackson, Miss:
| Dear Sir-The following analy-
sis showing the amount of di-
gestive nutrients in one hundred
pounds of oat dust and oat hulls,
indicate the very low feeding
value of the by-products:
| Oat dust, protein 80 pounds,
carbohydrates 1874 pounds, fat
81 pounds Oat hulls, protein /.
pounds, carbohydrates. 4O.1
pounds, fat 0.6 pounds. Oat
hulls and dust of low value. as
the table shows, being worth
about the same as oat chaff.
These practically worthless ma
terials are being used quite
largely for the purpose of adult
Grating the mixed feeds which
are now SO largely sold in this
state. Oat hulls are generally
represented to the purchaser as
containing broken kernels, which
| in most cases is not true. think
the principal thing added to
| the feed mixture by these oat
by-prodpcts is weight and bulk.
Yours very truly,
E. r. LLOYD,
Prof. of Agriculture and Di-
rector Farmers Institute.
-Yazoo City Herald.
The bill should become a law
and the violators of it punished.
| We have a law in regard to
| fertilizers which should also be
enforced. The inspectors come
around early in the season, when
maybe the grade is, better than
later Fon = several trips a year
would do good.
Asks $1,000 Donation to Erect
q Chanel.