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or middlings, not mixed with other substances, but sold sepa- 

 rately, as distinct articles of commerce, nor pure grains ground 

 together. 



Sect. 3. The term concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as 

 here used, shall include linseed meals, cotton-seed 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 not included within section two of 

 this act. 



Sect. 4. Before any manufacturer, company or person shall 

 sell, offer or expose for sale in this State any concentrated com- 

 mercial feeding stuff, as defined in section three of this act, he 

 or they shall for each and every feeding stuff bearing a dis- 

 tinguishing name or trade mark, file with the Director of the 

 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station a certified copy of the 

 statement named in section one of this act, said certified copy 

 to be accompanied, when the Director shall so request, by a 

 sealed glass jar or bottle containing at least one pound of the 

 feeding stuff to be sold or offered for sale, and the company or 

 person furnishing said sample shall thereupon make affidavit 

 that said sample corresponds within reasonable limits to the 

 feeding stuff which it represents, in the percentage of protein 

 and fat which it contains. 



Sect. 5. Each manufacturer, importer, agent or seller of any 

 concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as defined in section 

 three of this act, shall pay to the Director of the Maine Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station an inspection tax of ten cents per ton 

 for each ton of such concentrated feeding stuff sold or offered 

 for sale in the State of Maine, and shall affix to each car shipped 

 in bulk and to each bag, barrel or other package of such con- 

 centrated feeding stuff, a tag to be furnished by said Director, 

 stating that all charges specified in this section have been paid. 

 The Director of said Experiment Station is hereby empowered 

 to prescribe the form for such tags, and adopt such regulations 

 as may be necessary for the enforcement of the law. Whenever 

 the manufacturer or importer or shipper of a concentrated feed- 



