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Sec. 32. Whoever adulterates any whole or ground grain with mill- 

 ing or manufactured offals or with any foreign substance whatever, or 

 any bran or middlings made from the several grains with any foreign 

 substance whatever, for the purpose of sale, unless the true composition, 

 mixture or adulteration thereof is plainly marked or indicated upon 

 the packages containing the same, or in which it is offered for sale ; 

 or whoever sells or offers for sale any whole or ground grain, bran or 

 middlings which have been so adulterated, unless the true composition, 

 mixture or adulteration is plainly marked or indicated upon the package 

 containing the same, or in which it is offered for sale, shall be fined 

 not exceeding one hundred dollars for the first offense, and not exceed- 

 ing two hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. Municipal and 

 police courts and trial justices are hereby Vested with original juris- 

 diction concurrent with the supreme judicial and superior courts, to 

 try, and, upon conviction, to punish, for offenses against the provisions 

 ■of this act. 



* Sec. s;}. The director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion shall diligently enforce the provisions of sections twenty-two, thirty 

 and thirty-two, of this chapter, and, in his discretion, prosecute offenses 

 against the same. 



Feeding Stuefs and the Food and Drug Law. 



In the Food and Drug Law the term "food" as defined 

 inchtdes "ah articles used for food, drink, confectionery or 

 condiment by man or other animals whether simple, mixed or 

 .compound." Therefore, in a general way, commercial feeding 

 stuffs are included under the Food and Drug Law as well as 

 under the special law regulating the sale of concentrated com- 

 mercial feeding stuffs. The following are cited as illustrations 

 of the special bearings of the Food and Drug Law on the sale 

 <of feeding stuffs : 



Whole grains do not come under the requirements of the law 

 -regulating the sale of commercial feeling stuffs. Hence, so far 

 as the feeding stuffs law goes, oats badly adulterated with weed 

 seeds or with other grains could be sold with impunity. If,, 

 however, the oats are sold for oats and are not true to grade or 

 true to name, the sale is made in violation of the Maine Food 

 and Drug Law as well as the LTnited States Food and Drugs 

 Act. 



* The matter not relevant to feeding stuff is omitted. 



