128 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Sept.^ 



CHAPTER 236. 

 Fertilizers and Feeding Stuff. 



Sec. 4774. "Concentrated commercial feeding stuff" defined. The- 

 term "concentrated commercial feeding- stuff" shall include linseed 

 meals, cottonseed meals, pea meals, cocoanut meals, gluten meals, 

 gluten feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar feeds, dried brewers' 

 grain, malt sprouts, hominy feeds, cerealine feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, 

 corn and oat chop, corn and oat feeds, ground beef, fish scraps, mixed 

 feeds, provenders, bran, middlings, and mixed feeds made wholly or in- 

 part from wheat, rye or buckwheat and all materials ot a similar 

 nature, but 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 feed ground from whole 

 grain and sold directly from manufacturer to consumer. 



Sec. 4775. Certificate of weight and quality. Every lot or parcel 

 of concentrated commercial feeding stuff, sold, offered or exposed for 

 sale, shall have affixed thereto in a conspicuous place on the outside 

 thereof a plainly printed statement, except as provided in section 4776, 

 certifying: the number of net pounds of feeding stuff 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 percentage it contains of crude fat and of crude protein, both con- 

 stituents to be determined by the methods adopted at the time by the- 

 association of official agricultural chemists of the United States, but 

 such lot or parcel shall not be sold, offered or exposed for sale with such 

 statement affixed thereto by any wire or other metal. 



Sec. 4776. Certificate for cottonseed meal. Whenever cottonseed 

 meal is sold for fertilizer, the dealer shall, with the consent of the pur- 

 chaser, issue in lieu of the printed statement provided for in section 

 4775, a certificate which shall contain the statements required by section. 

 4775. 



CHAPTER 237. 

 Weight and Measurement of Specific Articles. 



Sec. 4782. Pound, hundred weight and ton. Barrel and gallon. 

 The avoirdupois pound shall bear to the troy pound the relation of 

 seven thousand to five thousand seven hundred and sixty. The hun- 

 dred weight shall contain one hundred avoirdupois pounds; and the ton, 

 twenty hundred weight. The barrel shall contain thirty-one and one- 

 half gallons; and the hogshead, two barrels. The dry -gallon shall con- 

 tain two hundred and eighty- two cubic inches; and the liquid gallon, 

 two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches. 



Sec. 4783. Bushel measurement. Charcoal, flour, potatoes. The 



bushel in struck measure shall contain twenty -one hundred and fifty 

 and forty-two hundredths cubic inches, and in heap measure twenty.- 

 five hundred and sixty -four cubic inches, except that every bushel of 

 charcoal shall contain twenty-seven hundred and forty-eight cubic 

 inches. When sold by weight, the bushel of charcoal shall weigh 

 twenty pounds when commercially dry; the barrel of flour, one hun- 

 dred and ninety-six pounds; and the barrel of potatoes, one hundred 

 and seventy-two pounds. 



Sec. 4784. Weight of a bushel in various articles. Penalty. The 



bushel of wheat shall contain sixty pounds; of Indian corn or of rye. 

 fifty-six pounds; of barley, forty-eight pounds; of oats, thirty-two 

 pounds; of corn meal, fifty pounds; of rye meal, fifty pounds; of peas,. 



