598 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Action was taken to place in abeyance 582 samples, which upon 

 examination and test were shown to be in compliance with the pro- 

 visions of the law or were 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, 1922, 82 cases were pending preliminary hearings or 

 before the board for final action, 244 were held in temporary abey- 

 ance pending the receipt of further information or the outcome of 

 prosecution based on the same product or correspondence with the 

 manufacturers, and 634 samples were undergoing analysis and test. 

 The inspectors and sample collectors of the board, operating 

 throughout the United States, collected 957 samples during the year. 

 A general classification of the articles represented in the collection 

 is as follows: 



Interstate samples collected. 



Class of samples. 



Number 



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 



Miscellaneous insecticide and fungicide preparations, agricultural use 



Kerosene emulsions 



Lice and mite killers 



Lime-sulphur solution and sulphur preparations 



Nicotine preparations 



Paris green 



Pyrethrum and hellebore powders 



Miscellaneous 



24 

 77 

 62 

 10 

 49 



154 



36 



9 



8 



115 

 88 

 6 

 61 

 41 

 31 

 34 

 60 

 92 



IMPORT SAMPLES. 



During the year 122 official and unofficial import samples of 

 insecticides and fungicides were collected through the various port 

 laboratories of the Bureau of Chemistry for examination and test 

 by the board. Disposition was made of 87 samples; 8 official sam- 

 ples were found adulterated and misbranded, and it was recom- 

 mended that the consignments be refused entry until correctly 

 labeled. The remaining samples were unofficial, 8 of them being 

 found to be adulterated or misbranded, or both, and in these cases 

 it was recommended that future shipments be detained, while 70 

 were neither adulterated nor misbranded. One official sample was 

 found to be neither adulterated nor misbranded and the shipment 

 was released. 



SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS. 



During the fiscal year 1922 the studies of the preparation, com- 

 position, and properties of certain arsenates of calcium were con- 

 tinued, as time permitted. It was believed when last year's annual 

 report was written that the work on one paper entitled " The Arsen- 



