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best methods of producing wool and preparing the same for market." 

 This work is consigned to the Veterinary Division. The Veteri- 

 narian is also a member of the State Live Stock Sanitarj Board, 

 whose duty it is to "protect the health of the domestic animals of 

 the State," and powers to adopt means to eliect this are granted by 

 the act creating the Board. 



FEKTILIZEK INSPECTION AND ANALYSES. The work of 

 the licensing and inspection of Commercial Fertilizers is in the 

 hands of the Secretary. Agents are employed to collect samples 

 of goods upon the market, and these are transmitted to the chemists 

 for analyses. The results are published for the information of 

 farmers and dealers, twice each year. 



INSPECTION OF NUKSEIUES. The Legislature of 1901 passed 

 an act making it the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture "to cause 

 an examination to be made each year of each and every nursery or 

 other jjlaces in this State where trees, shrubs, vines or plants,, com- 

 monly known as nursery stock, are grown for sale, for the purpose of 

 ascertaining whether the trees, shrubs, vines or plants, therein kept 

 or propagated for sale, are infested with San Jos6 Scale or other in- 

 sect pest destructive of such trees, shrubs, vines or plants." Where 

 a nursery is free from these insect pests, a certificate stating the fact 

 is issued to the owner. 



CONGENTKATED COMMERCIAL FEEDING STUFFS. Under 

 the act of 25th of xVpril, 1901, all concentrated commercial feeding 

 stuffs sold in this State, such as "linseed meals, cotton seed meals, 

 gluten meals, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar feeds, dried brewers' 

 grains, malt sprouts, hominy foods, cerealine feeds, rice meals, 

 ground beef or fish scraps, and ail materials of similar nature," must 

 have affixed to the package containing them a label "certifying the 

 number of net pounds of feeding stuff contained therein; the name, 

 brand or trade mark under which the article is sold; the name and 

 address of the manufacturer or importer, and a statement of the 

 percentage it contains of crude fat and crude protein." The Secre 

 tary of Agriculture is charged with the enforcement of this law. 



LINSEED OIL INSPECTION. The act of 23d of April, A. D. 1901, 

 provides "That no person, firm or corporation shall manufacture or 

 mix for sale, sell or offer for sale, under the name of raw linseed oil, 

 any article which is not wholly the product of commercially pure lin- 

 seed or flaxseed. Nor shall any person, firm or corporation manu- 

 facture or mix for sale, sell or offer for sale, under the name of boiled 

 linseed oil, any article unless the oil from which said article is made, 

 be wholly the product of commercially pure linseed or flaxseed, and 

 unless the same has been heated to at least two hundred and twenty- 

 five degrees, Fahrenheit." The Secretary of Agriculture is charged 

 with the enforcement of this law. 

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