PART V. 

 REPORT OF COMMITTEE 



ON 



Adulterations of Foods, Seeds and Other Products, 

 and Legislation Recommended 



AND 



Enacted by the Thirty- Second General Assembly, Regulating 



Same. 



COMMITTEE 



S. B. Packard H. R. Wright 



C. F. Curtiss 



Submitted to the State Board of Agriculture at a meeting on December 

 14, 1906, and was unanimously accepted. 



Mr. President, Officers and Members of Board. — Your committee, in- 

 structed at the last meeting to investigate the subject of adulterated 

 agricultural seeds, concentrated commercial feeding stuffs, and condi- 

 mental stock foods, beg leave to submit the following report: 



The following states have laws on the subject of concentrated commer- 

 cial feeding stuffs: North Carolina, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Massa- 

 chusetts, New Hampshire, Texas, Illinois, Ohio, Rhode Island, New York, 

 Wisconsin, Maine, Michigan, Virginia, and Georgia. Maine and Ken- 

 tucky have laws regulating the sale of seeds. 



The brief time given the committee to investigate the extent of adul- 

 teration of these products made it proper to pursue the inquiry through 

 experts on the subject. Professor Michael was, therefore, employed by 

 your committee to visit the leading centers of the State, and to take sam- 



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