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sentative sample in the presence of at least one witness. 

 This sample must be divided, in the presence of such wit- 

 ness, into two equal parts, each part weighing not less than 

 one-half pound; such parts shall be put in sealed packages 

 in the presence of said witness, one package to be delivered 

 to the person apparently in charge of the sale of such feed, 

 the other sample the proper official shall cause to be an- 

 alyzed at the earliest possible opportunity and the result 

 of the analysis of the sample or samples so procured, to- 

 gether with such additional information as the proper offi- 

 cial may deem ad\dsable, shall immediately be transmitted 

 to the manufacturer or person responsible for placing the 

 feed on the market, and shall be published in reports or 

 bulletins from time to time. 



Sect. 5. No manufacturer, importer or seller shall sell, 

 offer or expose for sale in this state, any commercial feed- 

 ing-stuff that is poisonous or deleterious to domestic 

 animals. 



Sect. 6. Any manufacturer, importer or seller who vio- 

 lates any of the provisions of this act, shall upon trial and 

 conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor which shall be pun- 

 ished by a tine of not less than $ . . . . nor more than. $ . . . . 

 for each such offense. 



Mr. Brown moved the adoption of the report. The mo- 

 tion was seconded by Dr. Webster and unanimously 

 adopted by the conference. 



At this point Dr. E. H. Jenkins, Director of the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station of Connecticut, presented the 

 following as a preamble for the outline of a uniform feed 

 law reported by the committee and moved that it be made a 

 part of- the memorandum of the doings of the conference. 



A conference was called in Washington, D. C, on Sep- 

 tember 0, 1!)(J1), by the American Feed ^Manufacturers' 

 Association to which were invited the officials charged with 

 the inspection of conunercial feed-stuffs in all the states of 

 the Union, having laws on the subject. 



