nations of crude protein, of crude fat, and of such other ingredients 

 as it is deemed advisable at any time to determine. Said director 

 shall cause the results of the analysis of the sample to be published 

 from time to time in station bulletins, special circulars, or elsewhere, 

 together with such additional information concerning the character, 

 composition and use thereof as circumstances may require. 



Section 6. Any person who shall adulterate any 

 Adulteration whole or ground grain with milling or manufacturing 

 of whole or offals, or with any foreign substance whatever, or 

 ground grain adulterate any bran or middlings, or mixtures of 

 or standard wheat bran and wheat middlings known in the trade as 

 by-products ; " Mixed Feed," or any other standard by-product 

 penalty. made from the several grains or seeds with any 



foreign substance whatever, for the purpose of sale, 

 unless the true composition, mixture or adulteration thereof is plainly 

 marked or indicated upon the package containing the same or in 

 which it is offered for sale ; and any person who knowingly sells or 

 offers for sale any whole or ground grain, bran or middlings, or mix- 

 ture of wheat bran and wheat middlings known in the trade as 

 " Mixed Feed," or other standard by-product, which have been so 

 adulterated, unless the true composition, mixture or adulteration is 

 plainly marked or indicated upon the package containing the same or 

 in which it is offered for sale, shall on conviction be fined not less 

 than twenty-five dollars or more than one hundred dollars for each 

 offence, and such fines shall be paid into the treasury of the Com- 

 monwealth. 



Section 7. The director of the Hatch experiment 



Director to station upon ascertaining any violations of this act 



prosecute for the first time shall forthwith notify the manufac- 



violators of turers or importers in writing, giving them not less 



Act. than thirty days thereafter in which to comply with 



the requirements of this act. In case of second or 

 subsequent violations by the same person or persons, or in case after 

 a lapse of thirty days the requirements of this act remain uncomplied 

 with, it shall be the duty of the director of the said station to prose- 

 cute the person or persons violating any provision of this act, and for 

 this purpose the director may, if necessary, employ experts, and may 

 further designate some person connected with the said station, or 

 some other suitable person, to make complaints in its behalf ; and in 

 making complaints for violations of this act the persons so desig- 

 nated shall not be required to enter into any cognizance or to give 

 security for the payment of costs; provided, however, that there shall 

 be no prosecution in relation to the quality of any unadulterated com- 

 mercial feed stuff if the same shall be found to be substantially 

 equivalent to the statement of analysis made by the manufacturers 

 or importers. 



Section 8. This act shall not affect persons manufacturing, 

 importing or purchasing feed stuffs for their own use and not to sell 

 in this state. 



