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used for feeding- farm live stock, sold, offered or exposed for 

 sale in the State of Vermont, shall, in addition to the tax tag- 

 described in section five of this act have affixed thereunto, in 

 conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a plainly printed 

 statement clearly and truly certifying the number of net 

 pounds of feeding stuff in a package, the name, brand or 

 trade mark under which the article is sold, the name and ad- 

 dress of the manufacturer, or importer, the place of manu- 

 and a chemical analysis stating the percentages it contains, 

 of crude protein, allowing one per cent, of nitrogen to equal 

 six and one-fourth per cent, of protein and of crude fat, both 

 constituents to be determined by the methods adopted at the 

 time by the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists; 

 provided that the statement of the percentage of crude fat 

 may be omitted if it does not exceed three per cent. 



Sec. 2. The term concentrated commercial feeding stuff, 

 as here used, shall not include hays, and straws, the whole 

 seeds nor the unmixed meals made directly from the entire 

 grains of wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat 

 and broom corn. Neither shall it include wheat, rye and 

 buckwheat brans or middlings, nor pure grains ground to- 

 gether, nor wheat bran or middlings mixed together or with 

 other feeds. 



Sec. 3. The term concentrated commecrial feeding stuff, 

 as hereused, shall include linseed meals, cottonseed meals, pea 

 meals, cocoanut meals, gluten meals, gluten feeds, maize feeds, 

 starch feeds, sugar feeds, dried brewer's grains, malt sprouts, 

 hominy feeds, cerealine feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn 

 and oat chops, corn and oat feeds, ground beef or fish scraps, 

 similar mixed feeds provenders and all other materials of a 

 nature not included within section two of this act. 



Sec. 4. Before any concentrated commercial feeding stuff, 

 as defined in section three of this act, is sold, offered or ex- 

 posed for sale, the importer, manufacturer or party who 

 causes it to be sold or offers it for sale within the state of Ver- 

 mont, shall, for each and every feeding stuff bearing a distin- 

 guishing name and trade mark file with the director of the 

 Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station a certified copy of 

 the statement named in section one of this act. and shall also 

 deposit with said director, at his request, a sealed glass, jar or 

 bottle containing not less than one pound of the feeding stuff 

 to be sold or offered for sale, accompanied by an affidavit that 

 it is a fair average sample thereof and corresponds within 

 reasonable limits to the feeding stuff which it represents in the 

 percentages of protein and fat which it contains. 



Sec. 5. The manufacturer, importer, agent or seller of 

 each concentrated commercial feeding stuff as defined in section 



