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in section one than is contained therein, shall on conviction in a court 

 of competent jurisdiction be fined not uiore than fifty dollars for the 

 first ollense, and not more than one hundred dollars for each subse- 

 quent offense. 



Section 7. All manufacturers and importers of concentrated com- 

 mercial feeding stuffs, or dealers in the same, shall, when requested, 

 furnish the Director of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station 

 with a complete list of the names or trade marks of said feeding 

 stuffs, and all agents selling, offering or exposing the same for sale. 



Section 8. The Director of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment 

 Station shall cause one analysis or more to be made annually of each 

 concentrated commercial feeding stuff sold or offered for sale under 

 the provisions of this act. Said Director is hereby authorized in 

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

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

 cial feeding stuff which may be in the possession of any manufac- 

 turer, importer, agent or dealer in this State; but said sample shall 

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

 representative, and shall be taken from a parcel or number of pack- 

 ages which shall not be less than five per cent, of the whole lot in- 

 spected, and shall be thoroughly mixed and divided into two equal 

 samples and placed in glass or metal vessels, carefully sealed and 

 a label placed on each stating the name or 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 be signed by the Director or his deputy and the parties or party 

 in interest, or their representative, present at the drawing and sealing 

 of said sample; 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 statements named in sections one and four 

 of this act. The result of the analysis of the sample or samples so 

 procured, together with such additional information as circumstances 

 advise shall be published in reports or bulletins from time to time. 



Section 9. The Director of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment 

 Station shall notify the State Treasurer of all violations of this act, 

 and the State Treasurer shall commence a suit in the name of the 

 State against the party or parties thus reported. It shall be the duty 

 of the Treasurer upon ascertaining any violation of this act to forth- 

 with notify the manufacturers and importers, in writing, and to give 

 them not less than thirty days thereafter in wtiich to comply with 

 the requirements of this act. But there shall be no prosecution in 

 relation to the quality of any concentrated feeding stuff if the same 

 shall be found to be substantially equivalent to the statement of 

 analysis made by the manufacturers or importers. 



