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the article is sold, the name and address of the manufacturer or im- 

 porter, and a chemical analysis stating the minimum percentages it con- 

 tains of crude protein, allowing one per cent, of nitrogen to equal six 

 and one-fourth per cent, of protein, and of crude fat, and the maximum 

 percentage it contains of crude fiber, the several constituents to be de- 

 termined by the methods adopted at the time by the association of 

 official agricultural chemists; provided that the statement of the per- 

 centage of crude fat may be omitted if it does not exceed three per 

 cent., and that of the crude fiber if it does not exceed ten per cent. If 

 the feeding stuff is sold at retail in bulk or put up in packages belong- 

 ing to the purchaser, the agent or dealer shall, upon request of the 

 purchaser, furnish him with the certified statement named in this 

 section. 



Sec. 2. The term concentrated commercial feeding-stuff, as here 

 used, shall include linseed meals, cottonseed meals, cottonseed feeds, 

 pea meals, cocoanut meals, gluten meals, gluten feeds, maize feeds, 

 starch feeds, sugar feeds, dried distiller's grains, dried brewer's grains, 

 malt sprouts, hominy feeds, cerealine feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn 

 and oat chops, corn and oat feeds, corn bran, ground beef or fish, 

 scraps, meat and bone meals, mixed feeds other than those composed 

 solely of wheat bran and middlings mixed together or with pure grains, 

 provenders other than those composed of pure grains ground together, 

 condimental stock and poultry foods, patented proprietary or trade- 

 marked stock and poultry foods, and all other materials of a similar na- 

 ture not included in section three of this act. 



Sec. 3. The term concentrated commercial feeding-stuff, as here 

 used, shall not include hays and straws, the whole seed nor the un- 

 mixed meals made directly from the entire grains of wheat, rye, barley, 

 oats, Indian corn, buckwheat, India wheat and broom corn. Neither 

 shall it include wheat, rye and buckwheat brans or middlings not mixed 

 with other substances, but sold separately as distinct articles of com- 

 merce, nor wheat bran and middlings mixed together and not mixed 

 with any other substances, nor pure grains ground together, when un- 

 mixed with substances other than wheat, rye or buckwheat brans or 

 middlings. 



Sec. 4. The auditor of accounts is hereby directed to draw an order 

 on the state treasurer for the sum of five hundred dollars annually in 

 favor of the treasurer of the University of Vermont State Agricultural 

 College, the same or such portion thereof as is found necessary, to be 

 expended by the experiment station in the analysis of concentrated 

 commercial feeding-stuffs. 



Sec. 5. So much of the appropriation granted under this act shall be 

 paid by the state treasurer to the treasurer of said experiment station 

 as the director of said experiment station may show by his bills has 

 been expended in performing the duties required by this act, but in no 

 case to exceed the amount of the appropriation received from the state 

 treasurer under this act, such payment to be made quarterly upon the 



