128 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



REPORT OF DEPUTY STATE SEALER OF WEIGHTS 



AND MEASURES. 



To the Hon. Willinm T. Guptill, Commissioner of Agriculture: 



I beg to submit to you my annual report of the Bureau 

 of Weights and Measures. 



In assuming the office of Deputy State Sealer of Weights 

 and Measures, April 5, 19 15, I found that a very vigorous 

 campaign had been made throughout the state with a view to 

 establishing standards in compliance with Section 2 of Chapter 

 44 of the Revised Statutes, and nearly every town of the 

 state, either by itself or by combining with other towns, is 

 supplied with a set of standards of the most approved type. 



AIM AND CONDUCT OF WORK. 



We have endeavored in our work to get in touch with the 

 purchaser and seller, to inquire into the irregularities under the 

 law governing this bureau, and have endeavored to protect the 

 consumer and business interests by giving to all a square deal. 

 It has been our aim to explain the work and answer questions 

 relating to weights and measures. We have endeavored to 

 follow up complaints and have invited the public to call on the 

 department for such investigation. 



Realizing the importance of the work in our state, we have 

 endeavored to be conscientious and have given our protection 

 to the honest dealer and the purchasing public. The reports 

 of the local sealers show that they have met some dealers who 

 have opposed any inspection of their scales and measuring de- 

 vices, and particularly an investigation of their niiethods of 

 using the same. The reasons have been found to be very plain. 



The law of weights and measures has been on our Statutes 

 as long as the territory has been a state, but, like many other 

 laws, has been allowed to pass along without any attempt at 

 enforcement. Our people had forgotten that there was such a 



