DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 217 



Expenses were as follows: 



Office expenses, including furniture and stationery |29 62 



Traveling and hotel expenses 550 40 



Salary 1,000 00 



Respectfully submitted, 



F. ERIC MILLEN, 

 State Inspector of Apiaries. 

 East Lansing, Mich,, June 30, 1916. 



REPORT OF ANALYSES OF INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES 



FOR 1916. 



ANDREW J. PATTEN AND E. A. DE WINDT. 



To the State Board of Agriculture: 



Gentlemen — The purpose of the insecticide law (Act 254, Public Acts 

 1913) is to prevent the sale of misbranded or adulterated materials 

 intended for use in "preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating" 

 insects or fungi that may infest vegetation or "be present in any environ- 

 ment whatsoever." This applies not only to materials used in spraying 

 fruit trees, vegetables, etc., but to all materials or mixtures intended 

 for combating insect pests of all kinds wherever found. 



All lice powders, cattle dips, roach exterminators, smut destroyers, 

 etc., come under the requirements of the law. 



The law provides that all such compounds or mixtures must bear the 

 name and address of the manufacturer and also the "correct names and 

 percentage amounts of each and every ingredient of the insecticide or 

 fungicide having insecticidal or fungicidal properties and the total per- 

 centage of inert ingredients." The law further provides that an arti- 

 cle shall be deemed to be misbranded if the package or label under which 

 it is sold "shall bear any statement, design or device regarding such 

 article or the ingredients or substances contained therein that shall be 

 misleading in any particular." 



The full text of the law has been printed and may be obtained by ad- 

 dressing Secretary A. M. Brown, East Lansing, Michigan. 



COLLECTION OP SAMPLES. 



One hundred and eight samples, comprising a wide range of materials 

 were collected on the open market by a regular inspector sent out for 

 the purpose. 



These have been analyzed and the results will be found in the follow- 

 ing pages. 



LIME-SULPUR SOLUTIONS. 



Eight samples of lime-sulfur solution were collected. Three of the 

 samples were found to be slightly below guarantee for total sulfur but 



