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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 tog-ether, 

 or pure grains ground together, and all other materials of simi- 

 lar nature not included in section two of this act. 



Section 4. There shall be annually appropriated from the 

 state treasury the sum of one thousand dollars in favor of the 

 treasurer of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, the 

 same, or such portion thereof as is found necessary, to be 

 expended by said experiment station in the analysis of concen- 

 trated commercial feeding stuffs. 



Section 5. So much of the appropriation granted under this 

 act shall be paid by the state treasurer to the treasurer of said 

 experiment station as the director of said station may show by 

 his bills has been expended in performing the duties required by 

 this act, such payment to be made quarterly upon the order of 

 the governor and council, who are hereby directed to draw the 

 order for such purpose. The director shall annually publish a 

 statement of the receipts and expenditures under this act. 



Section 6. Whoever shall sell, offer or expose for sale or for 

 distribution in this state any concentrated commercial feeding 

 stuff as defined in section three of this act, without complying 

 with the requirements of section one of this act, or any feeding 

 stuff which contains substantially a smaller percentage of con- 

 stituents than are certified ta be contained, shall, on conviction 

 in a court of competent jurisdiction, be fined not more than one 

 hundred dollars for the first offence, and not more than two 

 hundred dollars for each subsequent offence. 



Section 7. The director of the Maine Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station shall annually analyze, or cause to be analyzed, at 

 least one sample of every concentrated commercial feeding stuff 

 sold or offered for sale under the provisions of this act. Said 

 director is hereby authorized and directed in person or by deputy 

 to take 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 manufact- 

 urer, importer, agent or dealer in this state; said sample should 

 be placed in a suitable jar or bottle, tightly closed and a label 

 placed thereon, stating the name or brand of the feeding stuff 

 or material sampled, the name of the party from whose stock 

 the sample was drawn and the time and place of drawing, and 



