426 



ANNUAL EEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



or before the board for final action, 217 were held in temporary 

 abeyance pending the receipt of further information or the outcome 

 of prosecutions based on the same product, or correspondence with 

 the manufacturers, and 325 samples were undergoing analysis and 

 test. 



The inspectors and sample collectors of the board, operating 

 throughout the United States, collected 748 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 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 



Number 



of 

 samples. 



8.3 



63 



9 



35 



100 



35 



19 



7 



119 



Class of samples. 



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 



Ikf iscellaneous 



Number 



of 

 samples. 



42 



5 

 48 



46 

 17 

 33 

 45 

 42 



IMPORT SAMPLES. 



During the year 31 official and unofficial import samples of in- 

 secticides and fungicides w^ere collected by the various port labora- 

 tories of the Bureau of Chemistry for examination and test by the 

 board. Disposition was made of 32 samples; one official sample 

 was found misbranded, and it was recommended that the consign- 

 ment be released when correctly labeled. The remaining samples 

 were unofficial, three of them being found to be adulterated or mis- 

 branded, or both, and in these cases it was recommended that future 

 shipments be detained, while 28 were neither adulterated nor mis- 

 branded. 



PERCENTAGE OF VIOLATIONS. 



The following statement dealing w^ith official samples of certain 

 commonly used spraying materials collected in connection with the 

 enforcement of the law shows the progress made each year since the 

 enactment of the law in reducing violations thereof: 



Percentage of violations. 



