18 VERMONT AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



Sec. 4358. If the fertilizer or fertilizing material is sub- 

 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 Experiment 

 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 expended 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 annually 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. 



// is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 

 Vermont : 



Section i. All bottles, pipettes or other measuring glasses 

 used by any person, 6rm or corporation, or their agents or em- 

 ployes, at any creamery, butter factory, cheese factory or con- 

 densed milk factory, or elsewhere in this State, in determining 

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

 cream received from different persons or parties at such cream- 

 eries or factories, shall, before such use, be tested for accuracy 

 of measurement and for accuracy of the per cent, scale marked 

 thereon. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the dairy 

 school of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural Col- 

 lege to designate some competent person 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 superin- 

 tendent of the dairy school shall receive for such service the 

 actual cost incurred and no more, the same to be paid by the 

 persons or corporations 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, manipu- 

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

 or chemical, for the purpose of measuring the contents of but- 



