FOOD CONTROL LAWS OF THK VARIOUS 



STATES. 



Connecticut. 



An act concerning the regulation of the sale of concentrated com- 

 mercial feeding stuffe. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Gen- 

 eral Assembly convened: 



Section 1. Every lot or parcel of concentrated commercial feeding 

 stuif, as defined in section three of this act, used for feeding do- 

 mestic animals, sold, offered, or exposed for sale within this State, 

 shall have affixed thereto in a conspicuous place on the outside there- 

 of, a legible and plainly printed statement, clearly and truly certify- 

 ing the number of net pounds of feeding stuii 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 of crude protein, allowing one 

 per cent, of nitrogen to equal six and one-fourth per cent, of protein, 

 both constituents to be determined by the methods adopted at the 

 time by the Association of Olucial Agricultural Chemists of the 

 United States. 



Section 2. The term concentrated commercial feeding stuffs as 

 herein used shall not include hays and straws, the whole seeds nor 

 the unmixed meals made directly from the seed of wheat, rye, barley, 

 oats, Indian corn, buckwheat or broom corn. 



Section 3. The term concentrated commercial feeding stuff as 

 herein used shall include linseed meals, cotton seed meals, pea meals, 

 cocoanut meal®, gluten meals, gluten feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, 

 sugar feeds, dried brewers' grains, malt sprouts, hominy feeds, cereal- 

 ine feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn and oat chops, corn and oat 

 feeds, ground beef or fish scraps, mixed feeds, provender, bran, mid- 

 dlings, and mixed feeds made wholly or in part from wheat, rye or 

 buckwheat, and all materials of a similar nature not included in sec- 

 tion tw^o of this act. 



Section 4. Each and every manufacturer, importer, agent, or seller 

 of any concentrated commercial feeding stuff shall, upon request, 

 file with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station a certified 

 copy of the statement named in section one of this act. 



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