REPORT OF BUREAU OE INSPECTIOX. 17I 



REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF 



INSPECTION. 



To the Hon. J. A. Roberts, Commissioner of Agriculture: 



I have the honor to submit to you my report of the inspec- 

 tion work accompHshed by this bureau during the year 1914. 



The various corrumodities — the sale of which th^e Bureau of 

 Inspections has attempted to regulate — include agricultural 

 seeds, commercial feeding stuffs, commercial fertilizers, fungi- 

 tides, insecticid'es, drugs and foods; in the latter part of the 

 year, owing to the resignation of the Milk Inspector, the work 

 of milk inspection was placed und^r its supervision and since 

 September third, when the Net Weight law became effective, 

 'the enforcement of tJhis statute has also been the duty of this 

 branch of the department. 



Since the organization of the new Bureau of Inspections on 

 January first, 1914, the same general methods of insj>ection 

 have been adopted as employed by the former chief executive — 

 the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, 

 'Maine, — and practically no changes have been made in the 

 force of inspectors except that it has been increased as the 

 volume of inspection work has demanded. All samples col- 

 lected by inspectors, and all samples received from dealers and 

 'correspondents, have been forwarded promptly to the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, as the statute provides that all ana- 

 lytical work authorized by the Commissioner of Agriculture 

 shall be performed there. Three hundred and ninety-six towns 

 and cities of the state have been visited at least once, and 

 many of theon several times, in carrying on the inspection and 

 educational work and the collection of food and drug samples, 

 'and a complete inspection has at all times been maintained in 

 the three largest cities of the state. 



As required by chapter 119, P. L. 191 1, an annual registra- 

 tion is necessary to legalize the sale of each brand of feeding 

 stuff, fertilizer, fungicide and insecticide in the State of Maine; 



