202 IOWA DEPAKTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



NiMF OF ^FFF. Per Cent Of Per cent of ger- 



i>AiVir, yjr r>i^r.u Purity minable seeds 



Rye-grass, Italian (Loliuru italicum) 95 80 



Sorghum (Andropogon sorghum) S6 80 



Sorghum, for fodder 90 60 



Timothy (Phleum pratense) 96 85 



Wheat (Triticum) 98 90 



Sec. 17. It is hereby made the duty of the State Food and Dairy 

 Commissioner to enforce the provisions of this act. The inspectors, 

 assistants and chemists appointed by the State Food and Dairy Commis- 

 sioner shall perform the same duties and have the same authority under 

 this act as are prescribed by chapter one hundred and sixty-six (166), 

 laws of the Thirty-first General Assembly, and the said State Food and 

 Dairy Commissioner may appoint, with the approval of the Executive 

 Council, such analysts and chemists as may be necessary to carry out 

 the provisions of this act. 



Sec. 18. Whoever sells, offers or exposes for sale any of the seeds 

 specified in sections thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) of this act which 

 are mixed, adulterated or misbranded, or any agricultural seeds which 

 do not comply with sections ten (10), eleven (11) and twelve (12) of 

 this act, or who shall counterfeit or use a counterfeit of any of the tags 

 prescribed by this act; or who shall prevent or attempt to prevent any 

 inspector in the discharge of his duty from collecting samples or who shall 

 violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and upon conviction, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars 

 ($100) and costs of prosecution; provided, that no one shall be convicted 

 for violation of the provisions of section ten (10) of this act if he is able 

 to show that the weed seeds named in section ten (10) are present in 

 quantities not more than one in' ten thousand, and that due diligence has 

 been used to find and remove said seeds. 



Sec. 19. There is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of enforcing the 

 provisions of this act, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars ($3,000) 

 annually. Such expense shall be paid by warrant of the State Auditor 

 upon bills filed by the State Food and Dairy Commissioner with the Exe- 

 cutive Council and approved by them. All fees collected under the pro- 

 visions of this act shall be paid into the State treasury. 



EXPLANATORY NOTES. 



BY H. R. WRIGHT. STATE DAIRY AND FOOD COMMISSIONER. 

 STOCK FOODS. 



(1) Section 3 of the act defines "concentrated commercial feeding 

 stuffs" and includes in the definition "also condimental stock food; pat- 

 ented proprietary or trademarked stock or poultry feeds, claimed to pos- 

 sess medicinal or nutritive properties or both," but the feeds embraced in 

 this part of the definition are treated differently throughout the law. 



(2) Labels required on feeding stuffs. Sections 1 and 2. 



