PUBLISHED MONTHLY AND SENT FREE TO CITIZENS ON APPLICATION. ENTERED AT THE RALEIGH POST-OFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. W. A. GRAHAM, Commissioner, ex officio Chairman, Raleigh. B. W. KILGORE. FRANKLIN SHERMAN, JR. W. N. HUTT.. H. H. BRIMLEY. T. B. PARKER. W. M. ALLEN. W. G. CHRISMAN. B. BARLOW J. M. PICKEL... W. G. HAYWOOD. G. M. MACNIDER.. L. L. BRINKLEY. S. C. CLAPP.. S. B. SHAW.. Z. P. METCALF. J. A. CONOVER. J. L. BURGESS. E. L. WORTHEN. W. E. HEARN*. . State Chemist, Field Crops. . Entomologist. Horticulturist. .Naturalist and Curator. Demonstration Work. Veterinarian. ...Botanist. Assistant Chemist. . Fertilizer Chemist. .Feed Chemist and Microscopist. .Assistant Chemist. Assistant Chemist. .Assistant Chemist. Nursery and Orchard Inspector. Assistant Entomologist. ...Dairyman. .Agronomist. Soil Investigation. . Soil Survey. R. W. SCOTT, JR., Superintendent Edgecombe Test Farm, Rocky Mount, N. C. *Assigned by the Bureau of Soils, United States Department of Agriculture. RALEIGH, October 27, 1909. SIR-I submit herewith manuscript covering the inspection and analyses of concentrated stock feeds during the past year. I recommend its publication, as heretofore, as the November Bulletin. Very respectfully, B. W. KILGORE, State Chemist. To HON. WILLIAM A. GRAHAM, Commissioner of Agriculture. COTTON-SEED MEAL. B. W. KILGORE, STATE CHEMIST. BY G. M. MACNIDER, FEED CHEMIST AND MICROSCOPIST, J. M. PICKEL, L. L. BRINKLEY AND F. P. DRANE, ASSISTANT CHEMISTS. The following law regulating the registration, sale and inspection of concentrated feeds was passed by the General Assembly of 1909. This law is in accordance with the Uniform Feed Law adopted by the Southern States Association of Commissioners of Agriculture and which this association recommended be adopted by all the States represented in this association. The object of changing the law from its old form to the present form is to assist in the movement to have feed control laws with uniform requirements throughout the States where the trade conditions are similar. This law affords ample protection to the consumer, and uniformity in the requirements will facilitate the inspection work and be a help to the manufacturer who puts his goods on sale in the States having uniform requirements. Following is the text of the law: AN ACT TO REGULATE THE REGISTRATION AND SALE OF CONCENTRATED COMMERCIAL FEEDING STUFFS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SECTION 1. That every lot or parcel of concentrated commercial feeding stuff sold, offered or exposed for sale within this State shall have affixed thereto or printed thereon, in a conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a legible and plainly printed statement in the English language clearly and truly certifying the weight of the package (Provided, that all concentrated commercial feeding stuffs shall be in standard-weight bags or packages of twenty-five, fifty, seventy-five, one hundred, one hundred and twenty-five, one hundred and fifty, one hundred and seventy-five, and two hundred pounds); the name, brand or trademark under which the article is sold; the name and address of the manufacturer, jobber or importer; the names of each and all ingredients of which the article is composed; a guarantee that the contents are pure and unadulterated, and a statement of the maximum percentage it contains of crude fiber, and the percentage of crude fat, and the percentage of crude protein, and the percentage of carbohydrates, allowing one per cent of nitrogen to equal six and one-fourth per cent of protein, all four constituents to be determined by the methods in use at the time by the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists of the United States. SEC. 2. The term "concentrated commercial feeding stuffs" shall be held to include all feeds used for live stock and poultry, except hays, straws and corn stover, when the same are not mixed with other materials, nor shall it apply to the whole seeds or grains of cereals when not mixed with other materials. |