Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1909 — FEEDING STUFF LAW'S WORK [ARTICLE]

FEEDING STUFF LAW'S WORK

State Chemist’s Report Shows That It Has Been Effective. Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 12. —In his annual report for 1908 William J. Jones Jr., state chemist, says that the feeding stuff control law, which became effective April 10, 1907, has resulted in placing the feeding stuff trade of the state on an honest basis. He says, for example, that the selling of a feed as pure bran that contains screenings, sweepings and corn bran has to a large extent been stopped. During the year 1,452 samples of feeding stuff were obtained from the open market, the analysis of 1,428 of these has been completed, and the reports are being sent to the manufacturers Before the law was passed the use of ground corn cob, oat hulls, etc., as adulterants was common, whereat out of the 1,452 samples taken during the year in one case only was either-of these found.