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BUG death. 



This is put on tlie market by the Danforth Chemical Co., Leo- 

 minster, Mass. The sample examined was taken at Medina. It 

 consists largely of the oxides of zinc, lead and iron. It contains 

 some phosphorus. 



PRESENT LAW DEFECTIVE. 



The law in its present condition is seriously defective, as it fails 

 totally to protect purchasers from adulteration of Paris green mth 

 reference to the only material that we have found commonly used 

 as an adulterant, and that is white arsenic. As the law now stands, 

 there is nothing to prevent the addition ^of any amount of white 

 arsenic to Paris green. The law also fails to define Paris green. 

 In order to make the law really efiicient, Paris green should be 

 legally defined and the amount of copper should be taken into 

 consideration as well as the amount of arsenious oxide. It is a 

 matter of congTatulation and surprise that with so loosely con- 

 structed a law there should be found such a satisfactory condition 

 in the Paris green samples found in the market. 



LAW TO PREVENT FRAUD IN THE SALE OF PARIS 



GREEN. 



Laws of New York. — Chap, 113. 



AN ACT to amend the agricultural law, to prevent fraud in the 



sale of Paris green. 



Became a law March 23, 1898, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, 



three-fifths being present. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate 

 and Assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. Chapter three hundred and thirty-eight of the laws 

 of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An act in rela- 

 tion to agriculture, constituting articles one, two, three, four and 

 five, of chapter thirty-three of the general laws," is hereby 



