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taken in the manner hereinafter prescribed of every concentrated 

 commercial feeding stuff sold or oifered for sale under the provisions 

 of this act. Said Director is hereby authorized and directed in person 

 or by deputy to take a sample, not exceeding two pounds in weight, 

 for said analysis from any lot or package of concentrated commer- 

 cial feeding stulf which may be in the possession of any manufacturer, 

 importer, agent or dealer in this State; but said saniple shall be 

 drawn in the presence of said party or parties in interest, or their 

 representatives, and taken from a parcel or a number of packages, 

 which shall not be less than ten per cent, of the whole lot sampled 

 and shall be thoroughly mixed, and then divided into two equal sam- 

 ples, and placed in glass vessels, and carefully sealed and a label 

 placed on each, stating the name of brand of the feeding stuff or 

 material sampled, the name of the party from whose stock the sample 

 was drawn and the time and place of drawing, and said label shall 

 also be signed by the Director, or his deputy, and by the party or 

 parties in interest or their representatives at the drawing and sealing 

 of said samples; one of said duplicate samples shall be retained by 

 the Director and the other by the party whose stock was sampled; 

 and the sample or samples retained by the Director shall be for com- 

 parison with the certified statement named in section four of this act. 

 The result of the analysis of the sample or samples so procured, to- 

 gether with such additional information as circumstances advise, 

 shall be published in the report or bulletins from time to time. 



Section 8. Whenever the Director becomes cognizant of the viola- 

 tion of any of the provisions of this act, he shall report such viola- 

 tion to the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, and said Secretary 

 shall prosecute the party or parties thus reported; but it shall be 

 the duty of said Secretary, upon thus ascertaining any violation of 

 this act, 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 requirements of this act; but there shall be no 

 prosecution in relation to the quality of any concentrated commer- 

 cial feeding stuff if the same shall be found substantially ecjuivalent 

 to the certified statement named in section four of this act. 



Section 9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act 

 are hereby repealed. 



Section 10. This act shall take effect October the 1st, 1897. 



Massachusetts. 



An act relative to concentrated commercial feed stuffs. 



Section 1. The Director of the Hatch Experiment Station of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College is hereby authorized and directed 

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