STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



CHAPTER 35, SESSION LAWS OF 1901. 



An Act to Regulate the Sale of Concentrated Commercial 



Feeding-Stuffs. 



Section 1. Every manufacturer, company, or person, who shall 

 sell, offer, or expose for sale or for distribution in this state any con- 

 centrated 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 trademark 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 percentages it 

 contains of crude protein, allowing one per centum of nitrogen to 

 equal six and one fourth per centum of protein, and of crude fat, both 

 constituents to be determined by the methods prescribed by the asso- 

 ciation of official agricultural chemists. Whenever any feeding-stuff 

 is sold at retail in bulk or in packages belonging to the purchaser, 

 the agent or dealer, upon request of the purchaser, shall furnish to 

 him the certified 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 brewer's grains, malt sprouts, hominy 

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

 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 entire grains of 

 wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat and broom corn; 

 neither shall it include wheat, rye, and buckwheat brans or mid- 

 dlings, not mixed with other substances, but sold separately, as dis- 

 tinct articles of commerce, nor pure grains ground together. 



Sect. 3. Before any manufacturer, company, or person shall sell, 

 offer, or expose for sale in this state any concentrated commercial 

 feeding-stuffs, he or they shall, for each and every feeding-stuff bear- 



