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'More Vitamins Sought in Preparations Sold for Bowser.

A couple of dozen men meeting in the Mayflower Hotel yesterday dedicated themselves to the proposition of three square meals a day for every dog.

The men were dog food manufacturers and all members in good standing at the NRA. Specifically, a meeting was called to consider an amendment to the dog food code entitled: "Definitions and standards of identity and biological value and labeling requirements for canned dog food and a plan for their enforcement."

One of the men was P.M. Chapel [sic], of Illinois, who said he was the original canned dog-food manufacturer and that as much as he hated to say so, he had to admit that the business had fallen upon evil days.

"It's become a racket," he said.

Since he started the business, Mr. Chapel said, some 250 brands of canned dog food have been put on the market, "of which 90 per cent aren't fit for man or beast." No vitamins, he said.

Charles Wesley Dunn, executive officer of the dog-food code authority, presented the amendment. It proposed, among other things, that ingredients of dog foods should not only be edible, but wholesome, that labels should contain no "false or misleading statements" and that the whole proposition of three good squares a day should be placed in the hands of a "scientific council" of dog-diet experts, for which Mr. Dunn presented the names of three college professors.

The dog food manufacturers thought Mr. Dunn's amendment was fine, but some of them felt it didn't go far enough. Standards of food manufacture more specific than "edible" or "wholesome" should be set up, they argued. They held out for more vitamins.'