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substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for 

 preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any insect which 

 may infest vegetation, man or other animals, ar houses, or be 

 present in any environment whatsoever." 



The work of inspection has been carried on carefully, and one 

 hundred and seven samples have been collected for analysis, 

 including Arsenate of Lead, Arsenate of Zinc, Paris Green, 

 Lime Sulphur Solution, Lice Killers, Moth Repellents, Lark- 

 spur Lotions, Rat-Bis-Kit Paste, (carrying insecticidal claims), 

 Cooper's Sheep Dipping Powders, and other numerous prepa- 

 rations. 



The results of the analyses as noted in the tabulations have 

 shown no serious discrepancy between the analysis and that 

 guaranteed in the manufacturer's certificate and on the package, 

 and no hearings on this charge have been arranged. 



The total number of brands registered for sale in Maine 

 during the year 1914 w^as two hundred and nineteen. The 

 Inspectors found a large number of insecticides offered for sale 

 without registration, however, and one hundred and twenty- 

 eight hearings were arranged as the result of these violations ; 

 in most cases, when the facts were obtained, it developed that 

 the goods had been purchased in some previous year, registra- 

 tion having been arranged at that time, and carried over without 

 re-registration ; sometimes it has proven to be an oversight on 

 the part of the manufacturers in not protecting the dealers sell- 

 ing their products, and in still other cases — when notices have 

 been sent to manufacturers that their goods must be registered 

 in order to legalize their sale — the products have been with- 

 drawn from sale in the State of Maine; the latter conditions, 

 however, have not been found true of the insecticides and fungi- 

 cides sold in large quantities — such as Paris Green and Arsenate 

 of Lead. In the case of certain remedies, not expressly designed 

 as insecticides but carrying rather elaborate statements in the 

 way of insecticidal claims, when the existing law has been 

 brought to the attention of the manufacturers they have released 

 the products from registration requirements by changing the 

 phraseology of their labels and eliminating such claims from 

 their advertisingf matter. 



