No. 6. DEPARTMENT Ob' AGRICULTURE. 641 



Seeliou 8. The term importer for all the purposes of this act is 

 intended to apply to such person or persons as shall bring into or 

 oiler for sale within this State, concentrated commercial feeding 

 »tuiis manufactured without this State. 



Section 9. This bill shall not applj^ to feed ground from whole 

 grain and sold directly from manufacturer to consumer. 



Section 10. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are 

 hereby repealed. 



Section 11. This act shall take effect on and after July first, 1899. 



Approved June 20, 1890. 



Maine. 



An act to regulate the sale and analysis of con-centrated commercial 



feeding stuff. 



Section 1. Every manufacturer, company or person who shall 

 sell, offer or expo»e for sale or for distribution in this State any 

 concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as defined in section three of 

 this act, used for feeding farm live stock, shall, in addition to the tax 

 tag, described in section five of this act, affix to every package of 

 such feeding stuff" in a conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a 

 plainly printed statement clearly and truly certifying the number 

 of net pounds in package sold or offered for ^ale, the name or trade 

 mark under which the article was sold, the name of manufacturer 

 or shipper, the place of manufacture, the place of business and the 

 chemical analysis stating the percentage of crude protein, allowing 

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

 protein, and of crude fat it contains, both constituents to be de- 

 termined by the methods adopted at the time by the Association of 

 Official Agricultural Chemists. 



Section 2. The term concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as 

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

 the unmixed meal made directly from the entire grains of wheat, 

 rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat and broom corn. Neither 

 shall it include wheat, rye and buckwheat brans or middlings not 

 mixed with other substances, but sold separately, as distinct articles 

 of commerce, nor pure grains ground together. 



Section 3. The term concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as 

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

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

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

 ine feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn-and-oat chops, ground beef or 

 fish scraps, mixed feeds and all other materials of similar nature not 

 included within section two of this act. 

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