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of the Secretary of Agriculture a certified copy of the statement 

 named in section one of this act. 



"Section 5. Each and every manufacturer, im^jorter, agent or per- 

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

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

 without the statement required by section one of this act; or affix- 

 ing a statement or guarantee which is false in any particular, or in 

 relation to which the provisions of all of the foregoing sections have 

 not been fully complied with, shall, for every such offense, forfeit 

 and pay the sum of one hundred dollars, which shall be recoverable 

 with costs, including the expenses of analysis, by any person suing 

 in the name of the Commonwealth, as debts of like amount are bv 

 law recoverable: Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall, 

 together Avith his deputies, agents and assistants, be charged with 

 the enforcement of this act, and shall have full access to all places 

 of business, mills, buildings, carriages, cars, vessels and packages, 

 of whatsoever kind, used in the manufacture, importation or sale 

 of any concentrated commercial feeding stuff; and shall also have 

 power and authority to open any jjackage containing or supposed 

 to contain any concentrated commercial feeding stuff, and take there- 

 from samples for analysis, upon tendering the value of said sample; 

 and whenever requested, said samples shall be taken in the presence 

 of the party or parties interested or their representative, shall be 

 thoroughly mixed and then divided into two samples and put in glass 

 vessels and carefully sealed, and a label placed upon each vessel 

 stating the name or brand of the feeding stuff or material sampled, 

 the name of the manufacturer when possible, the name of the party 

 from whose stock the sample was taken, and the time and the place 

 of taking, said labels to be signed by the Secretary of Agriculture 

 or his agent, and by the party or parties interested or their repre- 

 sentative, if present, at the taking of the samples. One of said 

 duplicate samples shall be retained by the Secretary of Agriculture 

 ^T his agent, and the other by the party whose stock was sampled." 



SAMPLES COLLECTED AND ANALYZED. 



There were collected during the year 1902, under the provisions 

 of this act, two hundred and sixty-three samples of cattle-foods. 

 The samples collected, represented the following general classes 

 of feeds: 



