February, 1913- 



MAINE 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



ORONO, MAINE. 



CHAS. D. WOODS, Director 



ANALYSTS 



James M. Bartlett Herman H. Hanson 



Royden L. Hammond Edward E. Sawyer 



Helen W. Averill Elmer R. Tobey 



Official inspections! 



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FUNGICIDE AND INSECTICIDE INSPECTION. 



The law regulating the sale of fungicides and insecticides is 

 new and is only coming to be fully understood. During the 

 year 1912 a large part of the work of inspection has been in- 

 structing dealers relative to the law and what they must do to 

 conform with it. Nearly all of the dealers in fungicides and 

 insecticides were visited by the inspectors during the year 1912, 

 and many hundred letters were written regarding the law and 

 its requirements. While much pjrogress was made the law is 

 still only partly understood. The need of the law is amply 

 shown in the results of the first general and imperfect survey. 

 The situation would be discouraging were it not for the fact 

 that it is no worse than was the case with grass seed or feeding 

 stuffs when the laws regulating those commodities were enacted. 



Under the law a fungicide includes "any substance or mixture 

 of substances intended to be used for preventing, destroying, 

 repelling or mitigating any and all fungi which may infest vege- 

 tation or be present in any environment whatsoever." 



