48 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I9I5. 



The scope of the law is the same as the National Law. It 

 is very broad and includes all materials which are used for pre- 

 venting, destroying, repelling or mitigating fungi and insects 

 that infest vegetation, man and other animals, or houses, or any 

 environment whatever. 



Every lot or package shall be plainly marked with the num- 

 ber of net pounds in the package, the name or trademark under 

 which the article is sold, the name and address of the manu- 

 facturer or shipper, the minimum percentage of total arsenic 

 and the maximum percentage of water soluble arsenic. 



Before a fungicide or insecticide can be lawfully sold in the 

 State it is necessary that it be registered and for that purpose 

 there must be deposited with the Commissioner of Agriculture 

 a certified copy of the statements named above, a registration 

 fee of Sio.oo, and, if the commissioner requires, a sample of 

 the fungicide or insecticide. 



The registration fee is not assessed on a brand consisting of 

 organic matter and not containing any added inorganic matter 

 or mineral chemical, provided that a complete chemical analysis 

 is given in, and as a part of, the required certificate. 



A fungicide or insecticide is adulterated if : — its strength or 

 purity falls below the professed standard under which it is 

 sold ; any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for 

 the article: any A'aluable constituent of the article has been 

 Avholly or in part extracted; or if it contains any substance or 

 substances injurious to vegetation. 



A fungicide or an insecticide is misbranded if : — the package 

 or label bears any statement, design or device which is false or 

 misleading in any particular : the container does not earn," the 

 statements named above : the printed statement attached to the 

 container differs from the statements in the certificate ; the reg- 

 istration fee has not been paid ; it is in imitation of or offered 

 for sale under the name of another article: it is labeled or 

 misbranded so as to deceive the purchaser: any of the contents 

 of the package as originally put up ha\-e been removed in 

 whole or in part and other contents placed in such packages : 

 or it consists partially or completely of any inert substtance or 

 substances which do not prevent, destroy, repel or mitigate 

 insects or fungi and does not have the percentage amount of 

 such inert substances plainly stated on the label. 



