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stantially equivalent to the statement of analysis made by the 

 manufacturers or importers, no prosecution shall be had under 

 this chapter. All analyses of fertilizers provided for by this 

 act, including the collection of samples for such analyses, shall 

 be made by the director of the Vermont Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station at the expense of said station, and so much of 

 the license fees collected under this act shall be paid by the 

 state treasurer to the treasurer of said station as the director 

 of said experiment station may show by his bills he has ex- 

 pended in performing the duties required by this chapter, but 

 in no case to exceed the amount of the license fees received 

 by the treasurer under this chapter, such payment to be made 

 annnually on or before the first day of September, upon the 

 order of the state auditor, who is hereby directed to draw his 

 order for such purpose. 



No. 81.— AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF DAIRY- 

 MEN, RELATING TO TESTING MILK AND CREAM. 



It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State 

 of Vermont: 



Section 1. All bottles, pipettes or other measui ing glasses 

 used by any person, firm or corporation, or their agents or 

 employes, at any creamery, butter factory, cheese factor}* or 

 condensed milk factory, or elsewhere in this State, in deter- 

 mining by Babcock test, or by any other test, the value of milk 

 or cream received from different persons or parties at such 

 creameries or factories, shall, before sucn use, be tested for 

 accuracy of measurement and for accuracy of the per cent, 

 scale marked thereon. It shall be the duty of the superin- 

 tendent of the dairy school of the University of Vermont and 

 State Agricultural College to designate some competent per- 

 son to test the accuracy of such bottles, pipettes, or other 

 measuring glasses. The person thus designated shall so 

 mark such bottles, pipettes, or other measuring glasses as are 

 found correct in marks or characters which cannot be erased, 

 which marks or characters shall stand as proof that they have 

 been so tested; and no incorrect bottles, pipettes or other 

 glasses shall be thus marked. The superintendent of the 

 dairy school shall recieve for such service the actual cost in- 

 curred and no more, the same to be paid by the persons or cor- 

 porations for whom it is done. 



Sec. 2. Each and every person, who, either for himself or 

 in the employ of any other person, firm or corporation, manip- 

 ulates the Babcock test, or any other test, whether mechanical 



