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ihe provisions of this act; and the State Auditor shall draw his order 

 upon the general treasurer for said sum, or so much thereof as may 

 be necessary, on the presentation of vouchers properly authenticated 

 by the Board of Managers of the Khode Island College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts, and approved by the Governor. 



Section 10. This act shall take elfect on and after July 1st, 1899. 



Vermont. 



An act to regulate the sale of concentrated commercial feeding 



stuffs. 



It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ver- 

 mont: 



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

 ing stulT, as defined in section three of this act, used for feeding farm 

 live stock, sold, otl'ered or exposed for sale in the State of Vermont, 

 shall, in addition to the tax tag described in section five of this act, 

 have affixed thereunto, in a -conspicuous place on the outside thereof, 

 a plainly printed statement clearly and truly certifying the number 

 of net pounds of feeding stuff in a package, the name, brand or trade 

 mark under which the article is sold, the name and address of the 

 manufacturer or importer, the place of manufacture, and a chemical 

 analysis stating the percentages it contains, of crude protein, allow- 

 ing one per cent, of nitrogen 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 Agricul- 

 tural Chemists: Provided, That the statement of the percentage of 

 crude fat may be omitted if it does not exceed three per cent. 



Section 2. The term concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as here 

 used, shall not include hays and straws, the whole seed nor the un- 

 mixed meals made directly from the entire grains of wheat, rye, 

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

 it include wheat, rye aad buckwheat brans or middlings, nor pure 

 grains ground together, nor wheat bran or middlings mixed together 

 or with other feed. 



Section 3. The term concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as here 

 used, shall include linseed meals, cotton-seed meals, pea meals, cocoa- 

 nut meals, gluten meals, gluten feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar 

 feeds, dried brewers' grains, malt sprouts, hominy feeds, cerealine 

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

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

 of a similar nature not included within section two of this act. 



