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making the inspection retiuiiTcl hy this act and enforcing 

 the provisions thereof. The secretary of the board of agri- 

 eiiltiire shall report biennially to the legislature the amount 

 received pursuant to this act, and the expense incurred for 

 salaries, laboratory expenses, chemical supplies, traveling 

 cxi)enses, printing, and other necessary matters. Whenever 

 the manufacturer, importer, or shipper of concentrated 

 commercial feeding-stuff shall have iiled the statement re- 

 quired by section 1 of this act and paid the license fee as 

 prescribed in tliis section, no agent or seller of such manu- 

 facturer, importer, or shipper shall be required to file such 

 statement or pay such fee. 



Sect. 5. The secretary of the board of agriculture shall 

 annually cause to be analyzed at the New Hampshire Col- 

 lege Agricultural Experiment Station, at least one sample, 

 to be taken in the manner hereinafter prescribed, of every 

 concentrated conimercial feeding-stuff sold or offered for 

 sale under the provisions of this act. Said secretary shall 

 cause a sample to be taken, not exceeding two pounds in 

 weight, for said analysis, from any lot or package of such 

 commercial feeding-stuff which may be in the possession of 

 anj' manufacturer, importer, agent, or dealer in this state ; 

 but said sample shall be drawn in the presence of the par- 

 tics in interest, or their representatives, and taken from a 

 parcel or a number of packages, which shall not be less than 

 ten per centum of the whole lot sampled, and shall be 

 thoroughly mixed, and then divided into^two equal samples, 

 jiiid placed in glass vessels and carefully sealed and a label 

 placed on each stating the name of the party from whose 

 stock the sample was drawn and the time and place of 

 drawing, and said label shall also be signed by the person 

 taking the sample, and by the party or parties in interest 

 or their representatives at the drawing and sealing of said 

 samples; one of said duplicate sami)les shall be retained 

 by tlie secretary and the other by the party whose stock 

 was sampled, and the sample or samples retained by tlie 



