The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-30
Chapter 334.
AN ACT to regulate the sale and analysis of con-
cantrated Commercial feedinR stuff

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contracted commercial feeding stuff.
Section l. Every manufacturer, company
person who shall sell, offer or expose for sale
for distribution in this State any concentrated
commercial feeding stuff, as defined in section
three of this act, used for feeding farm live stock,
shall, in addition to the tax tag described in
feeding stuff, in a conspicuous place on the OUT
side thereof, plainly printed statement clearly
and truly certifying the number of net pounds in
the package sold or offered for sale, the name or
| trade mark under which the article is sold, the
name of the manufacturer or shipper, the place OF
manufacture, the place Of business, and chemi-
cal analysis stating the percentage of crude pro-
tein, allowing one per cent. OF nitrogen to equal
six and onefourth per cent. Of protein and Of
crude fat it contains, both constituents to be de-
termined by the methods adopted at the time by
the association of official agricultural chemists
Section Q. The term concentrated commercial
feeding stuff, as here used, shall not include hays
and straws, the whole seeds, nor the unmixed
meals made directly from the entire grains of
wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat.
and broom corn. Neither shall it include wheat,
rye, and buckwheat brans or middlings, not mixed
with other substances, but sold separately. dis
tinct articles Of commerce, nor pure grains ground
together.
Section 8. The term concentrated commercial
feeding stuff, as here used, shall include linseed
meals, cotton-seed meals, pea meals, cocoanut
starch feeds, sugar feeds dried brewers grains,
malt sprouts, hominy feeds, cerealne feeds, rice
meals, 0at feeds, corn and cat chops, ground beef
or fish scraps mixed feeds and all other materials
Of similar nature not included within section two
Of this act.
Sections 4. Before any manufacturer, company
or person shall SELL offer expose for sale in this
state any concentrated commercial feeding stuff,
as defined in section three of this act, he they
shall for each and every feeding stuff bearing
director Of the Maine Agricultural Experiment
Station certified copy Of the statement named in
section one OF this act, said certified copy to be
accompanied, when the director shall SO request,
by sealed glass jar bottle containing at least
one pound Of the feeding stuff to be sold or Of
fered for sale, and the company or person fur
nishing said sample shall thereupon make afidav-
It that said sample corresponds within reasonable
limits to the feeding stuff which it represents, in
the percentage of protein and fat which it con-
tains.
Section 5. Each manufacturer, importer, agent
or seller Of any concentrated commercial feeding
stuff, as defined in section three Of this act, shall
pay to the director of the Maine Agricultural Elk.
pertinent Station an inspection tax of ten cents per
ton for each ton of such concentrated feeding stuff
sold or offered for sale in the state Of Maine, and
shall afix to each car shipped In bulk and to each
bag, barrel or other package of such concentrated
feeding stuff, tag to be furnished by said direc-
tor stating that all charges specified In this section
have been paid. The director Of said experiment.
station is hereby empowered to prescribe the form
for such tags, and adopt such regulations as may
be necessary for the enforcement Of the law.
whenever the manufacturer or importer or shipper
OF concentrated feeding stuff shall have filed the
statement made in section one of this act and paid
the inspection tax, agent or seller of said manu-.
facturer importer or shipper shall be required to
file such statement or pay such tax. The amount
of inspection tax received by said director shall be
paid by him into the treasury of the Maine Agri-
cultural Experiment Station. The treasurer Of
said station shall make an annual report of recepts
and expenditures Of funds from this inspection
tax, and all receipts in excess Of three thousand
dollars shall be carried into the state treasury.
Section 6. Any manufacturer, importer, or per-
who shall sell, offer expose for sale or tor
distribution in this state any concentrated CONNER.
cial feeding stuff, as defined in section three Of
this act, without complying with the requirements
OF the preceding sections of this act, or any feed
ing stuff which contains substantially smaller
percentage OF constituents than are certified to be
contained, shall. on conviction in court Of com.
petent Jurisdiction, be fined not more than one
hundred dollars for the first offense and not more
than two hundred dollars for each subsequent Of
Tense.
Section 7. The director of the Maine Expert
ment Station shall annually anayze, cause to be
analysed, at least one sample to be taken in the
manner hereinafter prescribed, of every ooncen.
trated commercial feeding stuff sold or offered for
sale under the provisions Of this act Said direc-
tor is hereby authorized and directed in person or
by deputy to take q sample, not exceeding two
pounds in weight, for said analysis, from any lot
or package of concentrated commercial feeding
stuff which may be in the possession of any manu-.
facturer, importer, agent dealer In this State;
but said sample shall be drawn In the presence of
said party or parties in interest," their represen-
tatlve, and taken from parcel or a number of
packages which shall not be less than ten per cent
OF the whole lot sampled, and shall be thoroughly
mixed. and then divided into two equal samples,
and placed in glass vessels, and carefully sealed
and a label placed on each, stating the name or
brand Of the feeding stuff material sampled the
name of the party from whose stock the sample
was drawn and the time and place of drawing, and
said label shall also be signed by the director or his
deputy and by the party or parties in interest or
their representative at the drawing and sealing of
said samples; one Of said duplicate samples shall
be retained by the director and the other by the
party whose stock is sampled; and the sample or
samples retained by the director shall be for CON-
parison with the certified statement named in sec
ton four of this act The result of the analysis Of
the sample or samples SO procured, together with
such additional information as circumstances ad-
wise, shall be published in reports or bulletins
from time to time.
Section 8. Whenever the director becomes cog.
infant of the violation of any of the provisions Of
this act he shall report such violation to the score
rary of the board of agriculture and said secretary
shall prosecute the party or parties thus reported
but shall be the duty of said secretary upon thus
ascertanng any violation Of this act to forthwith
notify the manufacturer, importer or dealer in
writing, and give him not less than thirty DAYS
thereafter in which to comply with the REQUIRE
ments Of this act but there shall be NO prosecution
In relation to the quality Of any concentrated com
mercial feeding stuff II the same shall be found
substantially equivalent to the certified statement
named in section four of this act.
Section o.. Ali acts and parts of acts inconsistent
with this act are hereby repealed.
Section 10. This act shall take effect October
first, eighteen hundred and ninety.seven
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