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Sec. lo. Any person who shall adulterate any whole or 

 £^roimd grain with milling or manufactured offals, or with any 

 foreign substance whatever, or any bran or middlings made from 

 the several grains or the mixtures of wheat bran, and middlings 

 known in trade as mixed feed with any foreign substance what- 

 ever, for the purpose of sale, unless the true composition, mix- 

 ture or adulteration thereof is plainly marked or indicated upon 

 the packages containing the same, or in which it is offered for 

 sale; or any person who knowingly sells or offers for sale any 

 whole or ground grain, bran or middlings which have been so 

 adulterated unless the true composition, mixture or adulteration 

 thereof is plainly marked or indicated upon the package con- 

 taining the same, or in which it is offered for sale, shall, on con- 

 viction in a court of competent jurisdiction, be fined not less 

 than twenty-five or more than one hundred dollars for each 

 offense. 



Sec. II. If any feeding-stuff, not guaranteed as provided 

 in section one of this act, is proved on analysis to be adulterated, 

 the director shall give to the manufacturer, importer, agent or 

 seller, the thirty days' notice hereinafter provided for in section 

 twelve of this act, and upon their failure to comply with the 

 law within that time, shall notify the state's attorney for the 

 county in which said feeding-stuff was offered for sale, to the 

 end that the violator may be prosecuted. 



Sec. 12. The director of the Vermont agricultural experi- 

 ment station,, upon ascertaining any violation of this act for the 

 first time, shall forthwith notify the manufacturers or importers 

 in writing and give them not less than thirty days thereafter in 

 which to comply with the requirements of this act. In cases of 

 second or subsequent violation by the same party or parties, or 

 in case, after a lapse of thirty days, and the requirements of this 

 act remain still uncomplied with, it shall be the duty of said 

 director to notify the state's attorney of the county in which 

 the violation of this act is claimed to have occurred, to the end 

 that the violator may be prosecuted ; but there shall be no prose- 

 cution in relation to the quality of any commercial feeding-stuff 

 if the same shall be found to be substantially equivalent to the 

 statement of analysis made by the manufacturers or importers. 



Sec. 13. For all the purposes of this act commercial feed- 

 ing-stuffs shall be considered as distinct brands when differing 

 either in guaranteed composition, trade mark, name, or in any 

 other characteristic method of marking of whatever nature. 



Sec. 14. This act shall not affect stock on hand held by 

 dealers December first, 1902, nor parties manufacturing, import- 

 ing or purchasing feeding-stuffs for their own use and not to sell 

 in this state. 



