Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1908 — The Feeding taff Law. [ARTICLE]

The Feeding taff Law.

W. J. Jones, Jr., state c'emi t. has issued the following eircuLly In regard to the feeding stuff control law in its relation to produce s and consumers: Information having reached tids < ffice that in some parts of ti e st «te the requirements of the Feeding S uff Law are not understood, it is deemed advisable to issue this circular of Information. 1. The Feeding Stuff Law cove s all materials used for the feeding of domestic animals except hay, straw, whole seeds and the unmTked meals made directly from the entire grains of wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat, broom corn, wheat fours and other flours. All materials except those specifically mentioned as being exempt must be registered and tagged when offered or exposed for sale in this state. 2. The- law contains no provision which prevents any farmer of consumer from mixing and having g ound materials of his own pioductionin my quantity and proportion he may desire, for his own use. If after grinding, such mixtures are offered or exposed for sale they must be registered and tagged. For example, a farmer or consumer may mix corn, oats, rye, barley and buckwheat and take it to the. mill and hav e it ground, and such feed does not have to be tagged providing the feed re urned to the consumer is made from the materials he took to the mill to have ground. 3. Any one In the state may pur“ chase cereals separately, m x them in any proportion be desires and have them ground for pay for his own use without registering and tagging. When such materials are purchased already ground and mined, or are offered or exposed for sale after mixing and grinding, a tag must be given the purchaser with each 100 lbs. or fraction. 4. If a consumer takes wheat, or other cereals to a mill and hsg it ground for pay or toll, receiving in return the byproducts such as Wheat Bran, middlings, etc., from the cereals which -he took to the mill, such do not have to be tagged. If, however, the consumer takdfe his wheat Or other cereals to the mill and sells It at So much per bushel, taking in exchange so many pounds of wheat bran, middlings or other byproducts from the common bln, such byproducts must be registered and tagged. 5. Feed shipped outside the state does not have to be tagged with | the Indiana tag, but is subject to the laws of the state in which it Is offered for sale. From the preceding it will be seen that thp Feeding Stuff Law contains' no provisions which interfere with 1 the right of the consumer to have | grain of his own production ground as he may desire, and there is noth- | lug in the law which should In any! way cause a discontinuation of the practice In some localities of farm- ( era or millers grinding the grain raised by the consumer for the | consumer’s own use in such quantities and mixtures as he may desire. It should be remembered in thiß connection that in 1 order not tp come under the law the feed returned to the consumer must be from the grain or materials which he brought to jthe mill and not from that brought iq by his neighbor. If tbs grinding is done for toll and the toll Is offered for sale It must be prop- ' erly registered and tagged. ». If after the consumer has bad his materials ground Into feed be de-! sires to offer same of it for rale, the ; portion so offered must be registered and tagged..