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shall have affixed thereunto, in a conspicuous place on the out- 

 side thereof, a plainly printed statement clearly and truly certify- 

 ing the number of net pounds in the package, the name, brand or 

 trade mark under which the article is sold, the name and address 

 of the manufacturer or importer, and a chemical analysis stating 

 the percentage of crude protein, allowing one per cent of nitro- 

 gen to equal six and one-fourth per cent of protein, and of crude 

 fat it contains, both constituents to be determined by the meth- 

 ods adopted at the time by the Association of Official Agricul- 

 tural Chemists. 



If the feeding stuit is sold in bulk or put up in packages 

 belonging to the purchaser, the agent or dealer shall, upon 

 request of the purchaser, furnish him with the certified statement 

 named in this section. 



Sect. 2. 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 mid- 

 dlings, not mixed with other substances, but sold separately, as 

 distinct articles of commerce, nor wheat bran and middlings 

 mixed together, nor pure grains ground together. 



Sect. 3. The term concentrated commercial feeding stuft, as 

 here used, shall include linseed meals, cottonseed meals, cotton- 

 seed feeds, pea meals, cocoanut meals, gluten meals, gluten 

 feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar feeds, dried brewers' 

 grains, dried distillers' grains, malt sprouts, hominy feeds, cereal- 

 ine feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn and oat chops, corn and oat 

 feeds, corn bran, ground beef or fish scraps, condimental 

 foods, poultry foods, stock foods, patented proprietary or trade 

 marked stock and poultry foods, mixed feeds other than those 

 composed solely of wheat bran and middlings mixed together, or 

 pure grains ground together, and all other materials of similar 

 nature not included in section two of this act. 



Sect. 4. There shall be annually appropriated from the state 

 treasury the sum of one thousand dollars in favor of the treas- 

 urer of the ^Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, the same, or 

 such portion thereof as is found necessary, to be expended by 

 said experiment station in the analysis of concentrated commer- 

 cial feeding stuffs. 



