340 STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



ANALYSES OF SOME MATERIALS SOLD AS INSECTICIDES 



AND FUNGICIDES. 



Special Bulletin No. 74. 



A. J. PATTEN AND D. C. KELLOGG. 



The inspection and analyses of spraying materials reported herein are 

 made under authority of an act of the Legislature of 1913 (Act 254, 

 Public Acts of i913). The full text of the law has been printed and 

 copies may be obtained by addressing the Secretary of the State Board 

 of Agriculture. Sections 1, 5, 6, and 7, which contain the more salient 

 points of the law are here printed in full : 



Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, 

 offer or expose for sale within the State of Michigan any insecticide, 

 Paris green, lead arsenate, or fungicide which is adulterated or mis- 

 branded within the meaning of this act; and any person who shall 

 violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not to exceed two 

 hundred dollars for the first offense, and upon conviction for each sub- 

 sequent offense shall be fined not to exceed three hundred dollars, or 

 sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding 

 ninety days, or both in the discretion of the court. 



Sec. 5. The term "insecticide" as used in this act shall include any 

 substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for preventing, 

 destroying, repelling or mitigating any insects which may infest vegeta- 

 tion, man or animals, or households, or be present in any environment 

 whatsoever. The term 'Taris green" as used in this act shall include 

 the product sold in commerce as Paris green and chemically known as 

 the aceto-arsenite of copper. The term "lead arsenate" as used in this 

 act shall include the product or products sold in commerce as lead 

 arsenate and consisting chemically of products derived from arsenic 

 acid (H3ASO4) by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms by lead. The 

 term "fungicide" as used in this act shall include any substance or mix- 

 ture of substances intended to be used for preventing, destroying, re- 

 pelling, or mitigating any and all fungi that may infest vegetation or 

 be present in any environment whatsoever. 



Sec. 6. For the purpose of this act an article shall be deemed to be 

 adulterated, in case of Paris green ; 



First, If it does not contain at least fifty percentum of arsenious 

 oxide ; 



Second, If it contains arsenic in water-soluble forms equivalent to 

 more than three and one-half percentum of arsenious oxide; 



Third, If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so to re- 

 duce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. 



