New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 437 



§ 126. Adulterated Meal or Ground Grain; Penalty. — Any 

 person who shall adulterate any kind of meal or ground grain 

 with milling or manufacturing offals, or any other subistance 

 whatever, for the purpose of sale, unless the true composition, 

 mixture or adulteration thereof is plainly marked or indicated 

 upon the package containing the same or in which it is offered 

 for sale; or any person who knowingly sells, or offers for sale any 

 meal or ground grain which has been so adulterated unless the 

 true composition, mixture or adulteration is plainly marked or 

 indicated upon the package containing the same, or in which it is 

 offered for sale, shall be fined not less than twenty-five or more 

 than one hundred dollars for each offense. 



§ 127. Violation to be Reported to the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture. — Whenever the director becomes cognizant of the 

 violation of any of the provisions of this article, he shall report 

 such violation to the commissioner of agriculture, and said com- 

 missioner of agriculture shall prosecute the party or parties thus 

 reported; but it shall be the duty of said commissioner upon thus 

 ascertaining any violation of this article, to forthwith notify the 

 manufacturer, importer or dealer in writing and give him not less 

 than thirty days thereafter in which to comply with the require- 

 ments of this article, but there shall be no prosecution in relation 

 to the quality of any concentrated commercial feeding stuff if 

 the same shall be found substantially equivalent to the certified 

 statement named in section one hundred and twenty-two of this 

 article. 



§ 1. This act shall take effect December first, eighteen hundred 

 and ninety -nine* 



