The bee., 1913-12-09

sary for this country to enact laws
regulating the manufacture and sale
az these commodities. Practically
svery state in the union has com
mercial feeding stuns law, varying
considerably in their requirements,
due largely to conditions peculiar to
each state.
The Law Of Kentucky.
The feeding stuffs law of Kentucky
was passed in 1906 and carries in its
provisions the following objects:
First To have all feeding stuffs
sold or offered for sale within the
state registered under a guaranty and
truly labeled so the consumer may
know the character of the feed he is
buying.
Second TO protect the consumer
against inferior and aduterated feed
ing STUFF by recurring them to be
properly registered and labeled.
Third. To protect the honest man
uf2ctuyor against dishonest competi.
ton by preventing the fraudulent use
OF adulterants, misbranding and in
1erior grains and their by-products.
Fourth. To promote a more eco
nsmical and intelligent use of feed
ing stuffs.
The Kentucky Trade.
The trade of commercial feeding in
Kentucky involves an enormous sum
Of money each year-estimated at
three and one-half million dollars. Be
lore the operation of the feeding stuffs
law, these commercial feeds were be-
ing sold bearing misleading names
their real feeding value.
Since the law went into effect. the
ssale of adulterated feeds has been re-
zduced to a minimum. II has driven
from the market those feeds largely
made up Of sdulteraRts and inferior
materials, and saves the consumer of
The state thousands OF dollars annually
Aside from this, II is beyond ones
power to estimate in dollars and cents
the saving TO the state from the death
of stock from the use of commercial
feeds containing poisonous materials.
il is equally impossible to place a
value on the saving 10 the farmers in
the introduction and spread
ing Of noxious weeds through the me-
dunn Of stock feed.
Again from a humanitarian stand
point, II is OF inestimable value. Dairy
scOva, as we'll as work and meat ami
smals. fed on feeding stuffs made up
largely of inferior, adulterated and poi
Ssnous materials often become I'M
healthy and diseased. Likewise. the
milk and meat these animals produce
are inferior and unwholeeome. The
result of feeding such milk to babies
- foretold.
Sources Of Materials.
The greatest sources Of materials
nsed in commercial feeding stuffs are
the by-products of grain elevators.
Touring mills, sugar, glucose and oil
factories, breweries, distilleries,
slaughter houses, etc. These materials
are usually OF high grade and form the
bulk. Of legitimate trade in feeding
stuffs. The next source is the light
and immature grains of wheat, barley,
oats and other grains and cereals.
such as oat middlings, oat hulls, etc,
which range from very low to fair in
feeding value, and should not be
wasted Finally, there is another !
source of materials which is exploited |
ON the trade usually under false cover,
such as the trash. of elevators and
mills, corn cobs. peanut hulls, certain
weed seeds, cocoa waste and similar
materials from worthless to danger
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Authorizations.
The prevailing high prices of feed |
tAg stuffs are a great temptation to |
manufacturers and deal |
srs to use adulterants or materials OF
inferior quality. The most common
,Adulterants used in straight feeds are
corn bran, screenings, sweepings, pea.
nut hulls, cob meal and similar ma !
'terisls; in cotton seed meal, cotton |
seed hulls; in oil meal, cotton seed |
meal and weed seeds; in brewers and |
'distiller's dried grains, cob meal, corn |
bran and screenings; in mixed and |
compounded feeds, oat hulls, peanut |
hHlls, cob meal, cocoa waste trash of |
elevators and mills, screenings and
weed seeds.
Most OF the screenings coming into |
the state in compounded feeds are
ground or exposed to high temperature, |
thus rendering termination impossible
However, large number OF poultry
feeds contain weed seeds in a perfect
ly Viable condition. The fact that foul
seeds are abundant in these waste
products is serious question. These
weed seeds are eaten with the feed,
but number OF them will escape be-
ing ground up and dlgeSted and will
pass on In the manure. In which they
may ind their way TO the fields, there
40 terminate and do great damage by
stocking the farm with weeds.
An examination OF a sample OF
screenings revealed the following:
wheat and rye ............ 4TA%
wild buckWheat .,........ Ss.7%
f1aA '.'''''''s..'.,.... zl%
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