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Analysis. Whenever the Director of the Station shall so 

 request, the certificate must be accompanied by a sealed sample 

 of the goods so certified. It shall also be the duty of the Direc- 

 tor to cause to be collected each year at least one sample of each 

 of the brands of feeding stuffs coming within the provisions 

 of this act. These samples are to be analyzed and the results, 

 together with related matter, published from time to time in 

 the form of bulletins. 



Analyses for manufacturers, dealers and others, which are not 

 of general interest and which are not called for by the provi- 

 sions of the act, will be made on request at a price sufficient to 

 cover the cost of analysis. The rates will be: for protein, one 

 dollar; for fat, two dollars. Under no conditions will the Sta- 

 tion undertake analyses the results of which cannot be pub- 

 lished. 



Although the law did not take effect till October, a copy of 

 the above bulletin was sent in August to the entire mailing list 

 of the Station and to all dealers whose addresses could be found 

 in the Maine Register and who, from the nature of their busi- 

 ness, would seem at all likely to handle feeding stuffs. 



Inspectors. 

 In the past the Station has employed one person to collect 

 samples in the State. Although this may prove to be the more 

 economical method of inspection, it was deemed advisable to 

 employ several local inspectors for the present. The following 

 gentlemen were appointed inspectors in October and have 

 served the Station acceptably. 



Inspectors lor 1897. 



Arthur B. Briggs, Hartford; J. W. Dudley, Castle Hill; F. B. 

 Elliot, Bowdoinham; A. S. Farnsworth, West Pembroke; W. G. 

 Hunton, Readfield,Ora W. Knight, Bangor; W. H. Snow.Milo; 

 L. O. Straw, Newfield; P. C. Wentworth, East Hiram; Chas. E. 

 Wheeler, Chesterville; John M. Winslow, Glendon. 



The law went into operation October 1. In order that 

 dealers might have still further time to get into line with the 

 requirements of the law, the first visit of the inspectors was 

 deferred until after November 1. On this round the inspec- 

 tors visited all dealers in their territory and reported to the 



