REPORT DEPUTY STATE SEALER OF WEIGHTS & MEASURES. 1 35 



weights from this office would necessarily require much time 

 and expense, consequently we have not been able to comply 

 with those requests, excepting in towns where those heavy test 

 weights could be obtained from the local sealer. 



The results and importance of the enforcement of the weights 

 and measures law can be easily shown by taking these figures 

 into consideration : 



A manufacturer of butter sells the same at thirty-five cents 

 per pound and on the average of 5.10 per cent short weight on 

 the sale of one ton per month makes $17.85 illegal profit; if 

 his output is the same each month of the year his annual ille- 

 gal profit is $428.40. If, out of the fifty-five creameries in the 

 state of Maine, fifteen per cent of them sell cream by weight 

 at the average price of $1.28 per gallon at a shortage of weight 

 equivalent to two cents per gallon, the daily output amounting 

 to one hundred gallons would show an illegal profit of $576 

 to one plant alone. 



The butcher, including as meat sold at the extremely low 

 price of twenty cents per pound, on the average of one ounce 

 of paper and string per pound, on sales of 250 pounds per day, 

 gets an illegal profit per year of over $1,100. Many other 

 examples could be given, showing a similar situation in almost 

 all lines of trade. 



MANUFACTURERS OF MILK BOTTLES AND MILK CONTAINERS WHO 



HAVE FILED BONDS. 



The following manufacturers of milk bottles and milk con- 

 tainers have filed bonds with the State Treasurer in compliance 

 with Section i of Chapter 81 of the Public Laws of 1913, 

 relating to the sealing of milk bottles and jars, as amended by 

 Chapter 44 of the Public Laws of 191 5, and the following 

 designating numbers assigned : 



The Thatcher Manufacturing Co., Elmira, N. Y. 



Maine Seal No. i. 



Poughkeepsie Glass Works, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



Maine Seal P-3. 



