STATE LAW. 



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An Act to Regulate the Sale of Concentrated 



COMMERCL\L FeEDING-STUFFS. 



Section 1. Every manufacturer, company, or person, 

 who shall sell, offer, or expose for sale or for distribution 

 in this state any concentrated commercial feeding-stuff 

 used for feeding farm live stock, shall furnish with each 

 car or other amount shipped in bulk and shall affix to 

 every package of such feeding-stuff, in a conspicuous 

 place on the outside thereof, a plainly printed statement 

 clearly and truly certifying the number of net pounds in 

 the package sold or offered for sale, the name or trade- 

 .Lmark under which the article is sold, the name of the 

 manufacturer or shipper, the place of manufacture, the 

 place of business, and a chemical analysis stating the per- 

 centages it contains of crude protein, allowing one per 

 centum of nitrogen to equal six and one-fourth per centum 

 of protein, of crude fat, and of crude fibre, both con- 

 ^^ stituents to be determined by the methods prescribed by 

 the association of official agricultural chemists. When- 

 ever any feeding-stuff is sold at retail in bulk or in pack- 

 ages belonging to the purchaser, the agent or dealer, upon 

 request of the purchaser, shall furnish to him the certi- 

 fied statement named in this section. 



Sect. 2. The term "concentrated commercial feeding- 

 stuffs," as used in this act, shall include linseed meals, 

 cottonseed meals, pea meals, cocoanut meals, gluten meals, 

 gluten feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar feeds, dried 

 brewers' grains, malt sprouts, hominy feeds, cerealine 

 feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn and oat chops, wheat, 

 rye and buckwheat bran and middlings, ground beef, or 

 fish scraps, mixed feeds and all other materials of similar 

 nature ; but shall not include hays and straws, the whole 

 seeds nor the unmixed meals made directly from the en- 

 tire grains of wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buck- 

 wheat and broom com. 



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