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it contains, both constituents to be determined by the methods adopted 

 at the time by the association of official agricultural chemists. If the 

 feeding stuff is sold in bulk or put up in packages belonging to the pur- 

 chaser, the agent or dealer shall, upon request of the purchaser, furnish 

 him with the certified statement named in this section. 



Sec. 23. The term "concentrated commercial feeding stuff," as here 

 used, shall not include hays and straws, the whole seeds nor the unmixed 

 meals made directly from the entire grains of wheat, rye, barley, oats, 

 Indian corn, buckwheat and broom corn. Neither shall it include wheat, 

 rye and buckwheat brans or middlings, not mixed with other substances, 

 but sold separately, as distinct articles of commerce, nor wheat bran and 

 middlings mixed together, nor pure grains ground together. 



Sec. 24, The term "concentrated commercial feeding stuff," as here 

 used, shall include linseed meals, cottonseed meals, cottonseed feeds, pea. 

 meals, cocoanut meals, gluten meals, gluten feeds, maize feeds, starch 

 feeds, sugar feeds, dried brewers' grains, dried distillers' grains, malt: 

 sprouts, hominy feeds, cerealine feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn and 

 oat chops, corn and oat feeds, corn bran, ground beef or fish scraps,, 

 condimental foods, poultry foods, stock foods, patented proprietary or 

 trade-marked stock and poultry foods, mixed feeds other than those 

 composed solely of wheat bran and middlings mixed together, or pure 

 grains ground together, and all other materials of similar nature not 

 included in the preceding section. 



Sec. 26. The director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station 

 annually shall analyze, or cause to be analyzed, at least one sample of 

 eA-ery concentrated commercial feeding stuff sold or offered for sale 

 luider the provisions of this chapter. He shall take in person or by 

 deput}-, a sample, not exceeding two pounds in weight, for said analysis, 

 from any lot or package of concentrated commercial feeding stuff which 

 may be in the possession of any manufacturer, importer, agent or dealer 

 in the state. The result of the analyses of all samples of concentrated 

 commercial feeding stuffs together with such additional information as 

 may be of public benefit shall be published in reports or bulletins of the 

 station. 



* Sec. 30. Whoever sells, offers or exposes for sale or for distribu- 

 tion, in the state, any concentrated commercial feeding stuffs as defined 

 in section twenty-four without complying with the requirements of sec- 

 tion twenty-two, or any feeding stuff which contains a smaller 

 percentage of constituents than are certified to be contained, 

 shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for the 

 first offense and not exceeding two hundred dollars for each subsequent 

 offense. Municipal and police courts and trial justices are hereby vested 

 with original jurisdiction concurrent with the supreme judicial and 

 superior courts, to try, and, upon conviction, to punish, for offenses 

 against the provisions of this act. 



* The matter not relevant to feeding stuff is omitted. 



