198 IOWA DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



porter, manufacturer, person or party who causes it to be sold or offered 

 for sale within the State of Iowa, for use within this State, for each and 

 every feeding-stuff bearing a distinguishing name or trademark, shall file 

 with the State Food and Dairy Commissioner a certified copy of the state- 

 ment named in section one (1) of this act, and shall also deposit with 

 the said State Food and Dairy Commissioner a sealed glass jar or bottle 

 containing not less than one pound of the feeding-stuff to be sold or offered 

 for sale, accompanied by an affidavit that it is a fair average sample 

 thereof and corresponds within reasonable limits to the feeding-stuft which 

 it represents. 



Sec. 5. Before any manufacturer, importer, dealer or agent shall offer 

 or expose for sale in this State any of the concentrated commercial feed- 

 ing-stuffs defined in section three (3) of this act, he shall pay to the 

 State Food and Dairy Commissioner an inspection fee of ten cents per ton 

 for each ton of such concentrated feeding-stuffs sold or offered 

 for sale in the State of Iowa, for use within this State; (except that every 

 manufacturer, importer, dealer or agent for any condimental, patented, 

 proprietary or trademarked stock or poultry foods, or both, shall pay to 

 the State Food and Dairy Commissioner, on or before the fifteenth day of 

 July of each year, a license fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) in lieu of 

 such inspection fee. Whenever the manufacturer or importer of such 

 foods shall have paid the fee herein required, no other person or agent 

 of such manufacturer or importer shall be required to pay such license 

 fee) ; and shall affix to each lot shipped in bulk, and to each bag, barrel or 

 package of such concentrated commercial feeding-stuffs, a tag, to be fur- 

 nished by the said State Food and Dairy Commissioner, stating that all 

 charges specified in this section have been paid; provided that the inspec- 

 tion fee herein required shall not apply to unadulterated wheat, rye and 

 buckwheat bran, nor wheat, rye and buckwheat middlings, nor to wheat, 

 rye and buckwheat shorts manufactured in this State. The said State 

 Food and Dairy Commissioner is hereby empowered to prescribe the form 

 of such tag and adopt such regulations as may be necessary for the en- 

 forcement of this act. Tags for use upon concentrated commercial feed- 

 ing-stuffs shall be issued in denominations suitable for use with twenty- 

 five, fifty and one hundred pounds net, except as hereinafter provided. 

 Provided, that any dealer who sells at one time to any other person one 

 ton or more of concentrated commercial feeding-stuffs shall be held to 

 have complied with the provisions of this section if he delivers to the 

 purchaser the tax tags herein required, even though the may not be 

 attached to the various packages. 



Sec. 6. The State Food and Dairy Commissioner shall cause to be 

 made analyses of all concentra'ted commercial feeding-stuffs and agri- 

 cultural seeds sold or offered for sale in this State. Said State Food 

 and Dairy Commissioner is hereby authorized, in person or by deputy, 

 to take for analysis a sample from any lot or package of concentrated 

 commercial feeding-stuffs in this State, not exceeding two pounds in 

 weight; and in case of agricultural seeds, a sample not exceeding four 

 ounces in weight; but said sample shall be drawn or taken in the pres- 

 ence of the party or parties in interest, or their representative, and shall 



