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Section 1. Every lot or parcel of any concentrated commercial feed- 

 ing stuff, as defined in section 3 of this act, used for feeding domestic 

 animals, sold, offered, or exposed for sale, in this State, shall have 

 affixed thereto, in a conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a legi- 

 ble and plainly printed statement, stating and truly certifying the 

 number of net pounds of feeding stuffs 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 per- 

 centage it contains of crude protein, allowing one per cent, of nitro- 

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

 fat, both constituents to be determined by the methods adopted at 

 the time by the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists of the 

 United States. 



Section 2. The term concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as 

 heroin 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; nor shall it include 

 wheat, rye and buckwheat brans or middlings unmixed with other 

 substances and sold separately as distinct articles of commerce. 



Section 3. The term concentrated commercial feeding stuffs, as 

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

 cocoanut meals, 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 chop, corn and oat feeds, 

 ground beef or fish scraps, mixed feeds, provenders, and all materials 

 of a similar nature not included within section 2 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 Board of Managers of the Khode Island College of Agri- 

 culture and Mechanic Arts, a certified copy of the statement named 

 in section 1 of this act. 



Section 5. Each and every manufacturer, importer, agent, or per- 

 son selling, offering, or exposing for sale in this State any concen- 

 trated commercial feeding stuff", as defined in section 3 of this act, 

 without the statement required by section 1 of this act, stating that 

 said feeding stuff' contains substantially a larger percentage of 

 either of the constituents mentioned in section 1 than is contained 

 therein, or in relation to which the provisions of p^^ the foregoing 

 sections have not been fully complied with, shall be fined not exceed- 

 ing one hundred dollars for the first offense, and not t^xceeding two 

 hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. 



Section 6. The Board of Managers of the Khode Island College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts is hereby authorized to have collected 

 by the chemist of the Agricultural Experiment Station, or by a deputy 

 or deputies of said chemist, a sample, not exceeding two pounds in 



