Summary Of Report Of The Federal Trade Commission On Commercial Feeds March 29 1921

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Download or read book Summary of Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Commercial Feeds written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Summary of Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Commercial Feeds: March 29, 1921 To the President of the Senate of the United States. Sir: There is transmitted herewith in response to Senate resolution 140, July 31, 1919, a report on the manufacture and sale of commercial feeds. Commerce in animal feeds has grown enormously in recent years. This has been due in part to the greater knowledge of feed values and of the varied requirements of live stock. Many of the feeding-stuffs now widely used are by-products which were formerly wasted. Farmers and feeders may purchase their feed requirements in the form of ready-mixed feeds or they may buy the separate commodities and do their own mixing. The Federal and State Departments of Agriculture, the agricultural colleges, their staffs and other authorities render valuable assistance to farmers by advice on feeding problems, especially with reference to feed values and mixing their own rations. An investigation of the animal-feeds industry to be complete involves a study of practically every industry which uses in its manufacturing processes vegetable material and some which use animal material. The by-products of all these industries supply a large number of different kinds of feedingstuffs. In addition to these feeds there are numerous others which are not the result of manufacturing processes. It follows, therefore, that to make a thoroughly comprehensive investigation of animal feeds would involve a study of the manufacturing processes and of results in a large number of industries which produce as by-products materials suitable for feeds. Some indication of the ramifications of the feedingstuffs industry may be appreciated from the following general classification of feedingstuffs: 1. The hays and straws. 2. The whole cereal grains. 3. Cereal mill by-products. 4. Starch and glucose by-products. 5. Brewery and distillery by-products and yeast and vinegar by-products. 6. Oil-mill by-products. 7. Sugar by-products. 8. Animal and fish by-products. 9. Miscellaneous feeds. 10. Commercial mixed feeds or proprietary feeds. 11. Condimental stock remedies or tonics. The American Feed Manufacturers' Association has listed over 3,000 manufacturers of commercial mixed feeds, and the president of this association stated that this is very likely less than half of the total number. As a result of the foregoing facts it will be appreciated that anything like a complete survey of the feedingstuffs industry would involve an enormous expenditure of time and money. Under these circumstances the inquiry was confined to a study of representative feeds which enter into commerce and covers the period from 1913 to 1920, inclusive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.