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uotified and given an opportunity to be heard under the rules pre- 

 scribed by the Commissioner and Board of Agriculture. 



When any manufacturer or dealer is found guilty and convicted of 

 violating any of the provisions of this law he «hall be fined fifty dol- 

 lars ($50) for the first offense and one hundred dollars ($100) for 

 each subsequent offense. 



The object of the law as stated in section 6 is "to protect the pub- 

 lic from deception and fraud in the sale of these specific products.'' 



During the year 1910 there were registered with this DepartmenT 

 sixty-three brands of these conditioners and tonics. Of this num- 

 ber forty were preparations claiming to be of medicinal value for 

 stock, eighteen were for poultry and five were preparations claiming 

 to be of value for stock and poultry. 



General Character of the Preparations Covered hy This Law. 



The preparations which are required to register under this law 

 are usually sold under a trade name as Stock Powders, Stock Tonic? 

 and Conditioners, Poultry Powders, Laying Foods, etc. With few 

 exceptions these powders are composed of some concentrated feed as- 

 a base material, such as wheat bran, middlings, oil meal, cotton-seed 

 meal, corn meal, etc., to which are added various powdered vegetable 

 and mineral drugs. Some of the drugs found in these powders are 

 frequently used in veterinary medicine, while others have practicallj 

 no medicinal value. In many of these preparations common salt, 

 sulphur or charcoal are the chief ingredients which could be of value, 

 and very elaborate claims are made for these simple remedies. These 

 subjects will be taken up in detail later. A few of the preparations 

 do not use a base material to give bulk to the package, but simply 

 mix together the ingredients of the tonic or conditioner. These are 

 usually in much smaller packages than the ones using a filler and sell 

 for about the same price as the larger and more elaborately decorated 

 packages. 



In the following table are presented the name and manufacturer 

 of the preparations examined in preparing this report, together with 

 the name of the retail dealer selling the preparation and the weight 

 and price of each package. 



