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majority of cases practicing sanitary methods, while some, for 

 various reasons, I again visited. 



These creameries report that the product as it comes from 

 the farms is in very good con(Htion. being of a httle poorer qual- 

 ity during the hottest part of the season. In going about and 

 meeting the patrons of the creameries, I found that as a rule 

 thev were quite well satisfied with the usage they received 

 from the managers of the creameries relative to the Babcock 

 test. 



DAIRY PRODUCTS COMING UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE 



MAINE FOOD LAW. 



Dr. Chas. D. Woods, Director of the Maine Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Orono. acting in accordance with Public Laws, 191 1, 

 Chapter 119, appointed me, August nth. 191 1, as one 

 of his deputies to inspect creameries and dairies in the State of 

 Maine, A portion of this chapter reads as follows: 



"The director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station shall 

 annually analyze, or cause to be analyzed, samples of articles of agri- 

 cultural seed, commercial feeding stuff, commercial fertilizer, drug, 

 food, fungicide and insecticide, at such time and to such extent as said 

 director may determine. And said director, in person or by deputy, 

 shall have free access, ingress and egress at all reasonable hours to 

 any place or any building wherein articles of agricultural seed, com- 

 mercial feeding stuff, connnercial fertilizer, drug, food, fungicide, in- 

 secticide are manufactured, stored, transported, sold, offered or exposed 

 for sale. He shall also have power, in person or by deputy to open any 

 case, package, or other container, and may, upon tendering the market 

 price, take samples for analysis. The results of all analyses of articles 

 of agricultural seed, commercial feeding stuff, commercial fertilizer, 

 drug, food, fungicide and insecticide made by said director shall be pub- 

 lished by him in the bulletins or reports of the Experiment Station, 

 together with the names of the persons from whom the samples were 

 obtained, the names of the manufacturers thereof, and such additional 

 information as to him may seem advisable." 



"In case of food an article shall be deemed to be adulterated: 



First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to 

 reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. 



Second. If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for 

 the article. 



Third. If any valuable constituents of the article have been wholly or 

 in part abstracted. 



Fourth. If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated, or stained in a 

 manner whereby damage or inferiority i"; concealed. 



