The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
Ordinance No. 279.

To provide for and regulate inc m"n- ufacture and sale of mixed feed stuns in the City of Blrminshans.
 Be it ordained by the City Counch ol Birmingham, as follows
 section l. That every lot or parcel or mixed feedstuffs intended for use in feed ing domestic animals or poultry, manuiac- t,Ired. sold, offered or exposed for saie m the city of Birmingham shall have printed on the bag or other package containing It or affixed thereto, in conspicuous piace on the outside thereof a legibly ana piain- ly printed statement clearly and truiy certifying the number of net pounds or feeding stuff contained therein; provided that all mixed feedstuh shall be packed in ha as or packages containing 50 pounds net weight, or 100 pounds net weight, or 175 pounds net weight, or 210 pounds net weight: also stating the name, brand or trade mark under which the artlcie iS sold. and the name and address or the manufacturer, importer or jobper or the article; and further stating the true name of each of the ingredients entering into tha composition of mixed feedstuff, and a statement of the minimum percentage that it is guaranteed to contain Of crude protein and crude fat added together, and the maximum percentage of crude npre guaranteed, allowing per cent Of nit.o- zen to equal 6A per cent of protein; all three constituents to be determined by the methods in use at the time by tne association of official aer1cuiturai chem. ists of the United States; and provided further that no mixed feedstuffs shall be sold offered or exposed for sale within the city of Birmingham which does not contain at least 13h per cent of crude pro- tein and crude fat added together, or which contains more than IF per cent of crude fibre.
 Each and every mixed feedstuff coming within the provisions of this ordinance shall be registered with, and sample of same furnished to, the state commissioner of agriculture and industries, as provided by the laws of the state of Alabama.
 Provided nothing in this ordinance shall prevent the sale of cattle feed whose ba SC is cotton seed meal and hulls.
 Sec. g. That the term mixed feedstuff, !" as herein used, shall include mixtures con- taining linseed meal, corn meal, gluten feeds, germ feeds, rice meal. peanut meal, corn feeds. houiny feeds, starch feeds. sugar feeds, dried brewers grain, malt sprouts. dried distiller's grain, corn and oat feed. corn bran. wheat bran, rice bran containing not over 12 per cent fibre, wheat middlings. wheat shorts, ground beef. clover meal. alfalfa meal. pea vine meal, cotton seed products, whole seeds and grain and meals mixed or unmixed made from sucn seeds or srdins Ine term mixed feedstuffs' shall also include any food, food product or commodity in- tended to be fed to animals or poultry composed of two or more grains cereals or articles named above, and in which no one grain cereal or article exists or is present to the extent of s5 per cent or more; that is to say. if one of the distinct component parts constitutes 95 per cent or more of the whole. 1t Is not mixed feedstun. otherwise 1t Is mixed feed stuff under this ordinance.
 Sec 3. That mixed feedstun under this ordinance shall not include corncob meal, cocoanut hull meal rice polish rice hulls. peanut hulls. fish scrap or beet fibre. and the use of these 10 prohibited from any mixtures of feedstun offered for sale or sold in the city of Birmingham.
 See {. That every lot or parcel of mixed feedstun allowed to be sold in the city