REPORT OF BUREAU OF INSPECTION. 177 



The total number of brands registered for sale in Maine 

 during the year 1914 was two hundred and nineteen. The 

 Inapeotors found a large number of insecticides offered for 

 sale without registration, however, and one hundred and 

 twenty-eight hearings were arranged as a result of these viola- 

 tions. In most cases, when the facts were obtained, it devel- 

 oped tliat the goods had been purchased prior to the year 

 1914 and had been registered when bought but had been car- 

 ried over to the following \'^ear without re-registration; some- 

 times itt was proven to be an oversight on the part of the 

 manufacturers, and in still other cases where notices were 

 sent to the manufacturers that their goods must be registered 

 in order to legalize the sale, the products were withdrawn and 

 their sale in* the State of Maine diiscontinued ; the latter condi- 

 tions, however, are not true of insecticides or fungicides sold 

 in large quantities like Paris green or arsenate of lead. In the 

 case of certain remedies not expressly designed as in^secti- 

 cides but carr}*ing rather elaborate statements in the way of 

 insecticidal claims, the manufacturers have released such 

 products from registration requirements 'by changing the 

 phraseology of their labels and eliminating such claims from 

 their advertising matter, when the existing law has been 

 brought to their attention. 



Perhaps it may be well at this time to call the attention of 

 the consumer to the fact that the necessitv for an insecticide 

 law is apparent owing to the increased sale and consumption 

 of these products in recent years due to the advent of two 

 dangerous and destructive insects, namely, the gypsy and the 

 brown tail moths ; in combating these pests, the emplo}'ment 

 of correct spraying materials is very effective. 



The results of the analyses of fungicide and insecticide 

 siamples may be found in Official Inspections Xo. 68. 



Drugs InspKction. 



The work of drug inspection is not in any way indicated by 

 the actual collection of samples. The inspectors have been 

 constantly on the alert, examining labels for examples of mis- 

 branding, and using consistently the tabulated form of report 

 for drug stores whidh communicates rather complete informa- 



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