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plies to local millers as well as to interstate shippers, but in 

 order that unfairness be avoided it is provided that any brand 

 may be registered for the following year without the payment 

 of the fee if it can be established that the sales on that brand 

 did not exceed 50 tons for the year. It is expected that such 

 registration will be made and fees paid by the manufacturers 

 of the various brands to be sold. The list of feeding stuffs 

 exempt from the requirements of the law now includes only 

 hays and straws, the whole seeds, and the whole seeds ground 

 separately. It will be noted that registration may be refused 

 for brands bearing a misleading name, and the attention of the 

 handlers of feeds containing such adulterations as ground corn 

 cobs is called particularly to this point and to the fact that the 

 name "Mixed Feed" cannot be applied to such materials if they 

 are to be registered in Maine. 



In addition to the requirement of a minimum guaranty of 

 the amount of protein and fat present, which is required under 

 the old law, a maximum guaranty of the amount of crude fiber 

 present and, if the feed is a compound feed, the name of each 

 ingredient contained therein, is, at the suggestion of the manu- 

 facturers, also required. 



The new law will go into effect 90 days after the adjourn- 

 ment of the legislature, on June 30, 1911, and for the regis- 

 tration of feeds for the remainder of the year half fee will be 

 required. This would seem to be in accord with the spirit of 

 the law as it is designed to go into effect at once and at the 

 same time declares that the registration of all brands shall 

 terminate on December thirty-first of each year. 



Attention is here called to the hope that the very satisfactory 

 cooperation of most of the dealers of the state during the last 

 two ■ years be continued, and all dealers are urged to obtain 

 written guarantees from the shippers to the effect that all feeds 

 purchased conform to the requirements of the feeding stuffs 

 law and to the food laws. 



The rules and regulations deemed necessary for the proper 

 enforcement of the law are now being prepared and will prob- 

 ably be received from the public printer within the next month. 

 These will be sent to those interested upon application. 



