6 The Bulletin. 



Sec 3. Each and every manufacturer, importer, jobber, agent or seller, be- 

 fore selling, offering or exposing for sale in this State any concentrated com- 

 mercial feeding stuff, shall, for each and every feeding stuff bearing a dis- 

 tinguishing name or trade-mark, file for registration with the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture a copy of the statement required in section one of this act, and 

 accompany said statement, on request, by a sealed glass jar or bottle containing 

 at least one pound of such feeding stuff to be sold, exposed or offered for sale, 

 which sample shall correspond within reasonable limits to the feeding stuff 

 which it represents in the percentages of crude protein, crude fat, crude fiber 

 and carbohydrates which it contains. 



Sec 4. Whenever a manufacturer, importer or jobber of any concentrated 

 commercial feeding stuffs shall have filed a statement, as required by section 

 three of this act, no agent or seller of such manufacturer, importer or jobber 

 shall be required to file such statement. 



Sec. 5. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall have the power to refuse the 

 registration of any concentrated commercial feeding stuff under a name which 

 would be misleading as to the materials of which it is composed, or when the 

 names of each and all ingredients of which it is composed are not stated, or 

 where it does not comply with the standards and rulings adopted by the Board 

 of Agriculture. Should any concentrated commercial feeding stuffs be regis- 

 tered and it is afterwards discovered that they are in violation of any of the 

 provisions of this act. the Commissioner of Agriculture shall have the power 

 to cancel such registration. 



Sec. 6. Each and every manufacturer, importer, jobber, agent or seller of 

 any concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as defined in section two of this 

 act, shall pay to the Commissioner of Agriculture an inspection tax of twenty 

 cents per ton for each ton of such commercial feeding stuff sold, offered or ex- 

 posed for sale or distributed in this State, and shall alttx to or accompany each 

 car shipped in bulk, and to each bag, barrel or other package of such concen- 

 trated commercial feeding stuff, a tag or stamp to be furnished by the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture stating that all charges specified in this section have 

 been paid: Provided, whenever any concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as 

 defined in section two, is kept for sale in bulk, stored in bins or otherwise, the 

 manufacturer, dealer, jobber or importer keeping the same for sale shall keep 

 on hand cards of proper size, upon which the statement or statements in sec- 

 tion one is or ai*e plainly printed ; and if the feeding stuff is sold at retail in 

 bulk, or if it is put up in packages belonging to the purchaser, the manufac- 

 turer, dealer, jobber or importer shall furnish the purchaser with one of said 

 cards upon which is or are printed the statement or statements described in 

 this section, together with sufficient tax tags or stamps to cover same: Pro- 

 vided, that the inspection tax of twenty cents per ton shall not apply to whole 

 seeds and grains when not mixed with other materials. It is further provided 

 that, upon demand, said inspection tags or stamps shall be redeemed by the 

 department issuing said tags or stamps, upon surrender of same, accompanied 

 by an affidavit that the same have not been used : Provided, said tags or 

 stamps shall be returned for redemption within the time fixed by the Board of 

 Agriculture: Provided further, that nothing in this act shall be construed to 

 restrict or prohibit the sale of concentrated commercial feeding stuff in bulk 

 to each other by importers, manufacturers or manipulators who mix concen- 

 trated commercial feeding stuff for sale. The Commissioner of Agriculture is 

 hereby empowered to prescribe the form of such tax tags or stamps. 



Sec 7. Any manufacturer, importer, jobber, agent or dealer who shall sell, 

 offer or expose for sale or distribution in this State any concentrated com- 

 mercial feeding stuff, as defined in section two of this act. without complying 

 with the requirements of the preceding sections of this act, or who shall sell 

 or offer or expose for sale or distribution any concentrated commercial feeding 

 stuff which contains substantially a smaller percentage of crude protein or 

 crude fat or carbohydrates or a larger percentage of crude fiber than certified 

 to be contained, or who shall adulterate any feeding stuff with foreign, mineral 

 or other substance or substances, such as rice chaff or hulls, peanut shells, 

 corncobs, oat hulls or similar materials of little or no feeding value, or with 



