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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 

 a 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 address of the 

 manufacturer or importer, the place of manufacture, 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 mid- 

 dlings, nor pure grains grounds together, nor wheat bran or 

 middlings mixed together or with other feeds. 



Sec. 3. The term concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as 

 here used, 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, mixed 

 feeds, provenders, and all other materials of a similar 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 exposed for 

 sale, the importer, manufacturer or party w 7 ho causes it to be sold 

 or offers it for sale within the state of Vermont, shall, for each 

 and every feeding stuff bearing a distinguishing name and trade 

 mark, file with the director of the Vermont Agricultural Experi- 

 ment 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, accom- 

 panied 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 three 

 of this act, shall, before the article is offered for sale, pay to the 

 director of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station an in- 



