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dealer in this state ; but said sample shall be drawn in the pres- 

 ence of said party or parties in interest, or their representative, 

 and shall be taken from a parcel or number of packages which 

 shall not be less than five per cent, of the whole lot inspected, 

 and shall be thoroughly mixed and then divided into two equal 

 samples and placed in glass or metal vessels, carefully sealed, 

 and a label placed on each stating the name or brand of the 

 feeding stuff or material sampled, the name of the party from 

 whose stock the sample was drawn, and the time and place of 

 drawing, the said label shall be signed by the director or his 

 deputy and by the parties or party in interest, or theirrepresen- 

 tative, present at the drawing and sealing of said samples ; one 

 of said duplicate samples shall be retained by the director and 

 the other by the party whose stock was sampled, and the sam- 

 ple or samples retained by the director shall be for comparison 

 with the certified statements named in sections i and 4 of this 

 act. The result of the analysis of the sample or samples so 

 procured, together with such additional information as circum- 

 stances advise shall be published in reports or bulletins from 

 time to time. 



Sec. 9. The director of the Vermoat Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station shall notify the State treasurer of all violations of 

 this act, and the State treasurer shall commence a suit in the 

 name of the State against the party or parties thus reported. It 

 shall be the duty of the treasurer, upon ascertaining any viola- 

 tion of this act, to forthwith notify the manufacturers and im- 

 porters, in writing, and to give them not less than thirty days 

 thereafter in which to comply with the requirements of this act. 

 But there shall be no prosecution in relation to the quality of 

 any concentrated commercial feeding stuff if the same shall be 

 found to be substantially equivalent to the statement of analysis 

 made bj' the manufacturers or importers. 



SEC 10. The term importer, for all the purposes of this 

 act, shall be taken to mean all who procure or sell concentrated 

 commercial feeding stuffs. 



Sec. 11. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act 

 are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 12. This act shall take effect July 1st, 1899. 



Approved November 29, 1898. 



