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Sec. 10. Any person who shall adulterate any whole or ground grain 

 with milling or manufactured offals, or with any foreign substance 

 whatever, or any bran or middlings made from the several grains or the 

 mixtures of wheat brain, and middlings known in trade as mixed feed 

 with any foreign substance whatever, for the purpose of sale, unless the 

 true composition, mixture or adulteration thereof is plainly marked or 

 indicated upon the packages containing the same, or in which it is 

 offered for sale; or any person who knowingly sells or offers for sale 

 any whole or ground grain, bran or middlings which have been so 

 adulterated unless the true composition, mixture or adulteration is 

 plainly marked or indicated upon the package containing the same, 

 or in which it is offered for sale, shall, on conviction in a court of com- 

 petent jurisdiction, be fined not less than twenty-five or more than one 

 hundred dollars for each offense. 



Sec. 11. If any feeding-stuff, not guaranteed as provided in section 

 one of this act, is proved on analysis to be adulterated, the director 

 shall give to the manufacturer, importer, agent or seller, the thirty 

 days' notice hereinafter provided for in section twelve of this act, and 

 upon their failure to comply with the law within that time, shall notify 

 the state's attorney for the county in which said feeding-stuff was 

 offered for sale, to the end that the violator may be prosecuted. 



Sec. 12. The director of the Vermont agricultural experiment sta- 

 tion, upon ascertaining any violation of this act for the first time, shall 

 forthwith notify the manufacturers or importers in writing and give 

 them not less than thirty days thereafter in which to comply with the 

 requirements of this act. In cases of second or subsequent violation 

 by the same party or parties, or in case, after a lapse of thirty days, 

 and the requirements of this act remain still uncomplied with, it shall be 

 the duty of said director to notify the state's attorney of the county in 

 which the violation of this act is claimed to have occurred, to the end 

 that the violator may be prosecuted; but there shall be no prosecu- 

 tion in relation to the quality of any commercial feeding-stuff if the 

 same shall be found to be substantially equivalent to the statement of 

 analysis made by the manufacturers or importers. 



Sec. 13. For all the purposes of this act commercial feeding-stuffs 

 shall be considered as distinct brands when differing either in guar- 

 anteed composition, trade mark, name, or in any other characteristic 

 method of marking of whatever nature. 



Sec. 14. This act shall not affect stock on hand held by dealers De- 

 cember first, 1902, nor parties manufacturing, importing or purchasing 

 feeding-stuffs for their own use and not to sell in this state. 



Sec. 15. The term "importer," for all the purposes of this act, shall 

 be taken to mean all who procure or sell concentrated commercial 

 feeding-stuffs made in other states. 



Sec. 16. Number eighty-three of the acts of 1898, and all acts or parts 

 of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 17. This act shall take effect December 1, 1902. 



Approved December 10, 1902. 



