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Sec. 13. For all the purposes of this act, fertilizers shall be considered 

 as distinct brands when differing either in guaranteed composition, trade 

 mark, name, or in any other characteristic method of marking of what- 

 ever nature. 



Sec. 14. This act shall not affect parties manufacturing, importing, or 

 purchasing fertilizers for their own use and not to sell in this state. 



Sec. 15. Sections 4346 to 4359 inclusive of the Vermont Statutes and 

 all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 16. This act shall take effect from its passage. 



Approved December 11, 1902. 



No. 81.— AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF DAIRYMEN, RE- 

 LATING TO TESTING MILK AND CREAM. 



It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont : 



Section 1. All bottles, pipettes or other measuring glasses used by 

 any person, firm or corporation, or their agents or employees, at any 

 creamery, butter factory, cheese factory, or condensed milk factory or 

 elsewhere in this State, in determining by Babcock test, or by any other 

 test, the value of milk or cream received from different persons or 

 parties at such creameries or factories, shall, before such use, be tested 

 for accuracy of measurement and for accuracy of the per cent, scale 

 marked thereon. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the dairy 

 school of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College to 

 designate some competent person to test the accuracy of such bottles, 

 pipettes, or other measuring glasses. The person thus designated shall 

 so mark such bottles, pipettes, or other measuring glasses as are found 

 correct in marks or characters which cannot be erased, which marks or 

 characters shall stand as proof that they have been so tested; and no 

 incorrect bottles, pipettes or other glasses shall be thus marked. The 

 superintendent of the dairy school shall receive for such service the 

 actual cost incurred and no more, the same to be paid by the persons 

 or corporations for whom it is done. 



Sec. 2. Each and every person, who, either for himself or in the em- 

 ploy of any other person, firm or corporation, manipulates the Babcock 

 test, or any other test, whether mechanical or chemical, for the purpose 

 of measuring the contents of butter fat in milk or cream as a basis for 

 apportioning the value of such milk or cream, or the butter or cheese 

 made from the same shall secure a certificate from the superintendent 

 of the dairy school of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural 

 College that he or she is competent and well qualified to perform such 



