INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE BOARD. 501 



General to institute criminal action or seizure proceedings. Dispo- 

 sition was made of 129 cases by correspondence witli the manufac- 

 turers. These cases presented violations which were technical only, 

 not flagrant, or cases in which the manufacturer gave reasonable 

 and adequate explanation of his failure to conform to the provi- 

 sions of the act. Action was taken to place in abeyance 621 samples, 

 whicli, upon examination and test, were shown to be in compliance 

 with the provisions of the law or Avere from shipments of the same 

 goods made prior to shipments for which the manufacturer had 

 been convicted and had after citation conformed to the requirements 

 of the law. On June 30, 1919, 73 cases were pending preliminary 

 hearings or before the board for final action, 136 were held in tem- 

 porary abeyance pending the receipt of further information, or 

 the outcome of prosecutions based on the same product, or corre- 

 spondence with the manufacturers, and 471 samples were undergo- 

 ing analysis and test. 



The inspectors and sample collectors of the board, operating 

 throughout the United 'States, collected 904 samples during the year. 

 A general classification of the articles represented in the collection 



is as follows: 



Interstate samples collected. 



Class of samples. 



Arsenate of calcium 



Arsenate of lead 



Bordeaux mixture and combinations of Bordeaux mixture with insecticides. 



Chlorinated lime 



Dips for animals 



Disinfectants, germicides, bactericides 



Fly preparations, for animals 



Fish-oil and whale-oil preparations 



Formaldehyde preparations 



Insect preparations, household use 



Insecticide and fungicide preparations, agricultural use : 



Kerosene emulsioas 



Lice and mite killers 



Lime-sulphur solution and sulphur preparations 



Nicotine preparations 



Paris green 



Pyrethrum and hellebore powders 



Miscellaneous 



Number 



of 

 samples. 



39 

 96 

 118 

 20 

 21 

 93 

 18 

 29 

 16 

 82 

 80 

 10 

 41 

 38 

 3 



49 

 77 

 74 



IMPORT SAMPLES. 



During the year 41 official and unofficial import samples of insecti- 

 cides and fungicides were collected by the various port laboratories 

 of the Bureau of Chemistry for examination and test by the board. 

 Disposition was made of 43 samples; one official sample was found 

 adulterated and misbranded, and it was recommended that the con- 

 signment be released when correctly labeled. Two official samples 

 were found to be neither adulterated nor misbranded and the ship- 

 ments were accordingly released. The remaining samples were un- 

 official, 15 of them being found to be adulterated or misbranded, or 

 both, and in these cases it was recommended that future shipments bo 

 detained, while 25 were neither adulterated nor misbranded. 



