March, 191 5. 



MAINE 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



ORONO, MAINE. 



ANALYSTS 



James M. Bartlett Herman H. Hanson 



Royden L. Hammond Edward E. Sawyer 



Elmer R. Tobey Hoyt D. Lucas 



d^ffitial insipectionsi 



68 



FUNGICIDE AND INSECTICIDE INSPECTION 



The Commissioner of Agriculture is the executive of the law 

 regulating the sale of fungicides and insecticides in Maine. It 

 is the duty of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station to 

 make the analyses of the samples collected by the Commis- 

 sioner, and it is the duty of the Director to publish the results 

 of the analyses of the samples of fungicides and insecticides, 

 and such additional informsatiion as may seem advisable. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Reference list of fungicides and insecticides 30 



Tabular results of the examinations 31 



Requirements of the law 47 



The Federal Law 49 



Discussion of Results 50 



Statement by the Executive of the Law 55 



Note. All correspondence relative to the inspection laws should be 

 addressed to the Bureau of Inspections, Department of Agriculture, 

 Augusta, Maine. 



