6 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1916. 



Arsenical Insecticides Analysed in 1915 — Concluded. 



Name and Address op 

 Maker, Name op Goods 

 and source op sample 



Claims Made on Cbrtifi- Results op Examination. 

 cate or on Label. 



ARSITE 

 Morris Herrmann & Co., New 

 York City, "Arsite." Ma- 

 son-Hall, Belfast. 



PARIS GREEN 



Fred L. Lavanburg, New York 



City. "Star Brand Paris 



Green." Dunbar's Drug 



Store. Waterville. 



F. W. Devoe & J. T. Reynolds 

 Co., New York City. " Paris 

 Green." Geo. Drapeau, 

 Brunswick. 



SHEEP DIPPING POWDER 

 Wm. Cooper & Nephews, Chi- 

 cago, 111. "Cooper's Sheep 

 Dipping Powder." Geo. M. 

 Barrows, Newport. 



Total arsenic not less than 

 28.8 per cent. One pint. 



Not less than 50 per cent of 

 arsenious odixe (AS2O3) and 

 not more than 3 J per cent 

 of arsenious oxide soluble 

 in water. 1 lb. 



Certificate claims: not less 

 than 50 per cent total arse- 

 nic and not more than 3| 

 per cent of arsenic soluble 

 in water. On label: Not 

 less than 56 per cent arse- 

 nious oxide (As203) , and not 

 more than 2 per cent arsen- 

 ious oxide soluble in water, 

 i lb. 



Contains not less than 16.75 

 per cent metallic arsenic, of 

 which at least 14 per cent 

 is in water soluble form. 



No. 30393. Slightly short 

 measure. Composition 

 sufficiently high so if 

 diluted to the measure 

 claimed it would have 

 claimed composition. 



No. 30388.. Weight and 

 composition as claimed. 



No. 30363. Certificate evi- 

 dently made in error. 

 Weight and composi- 

 tion in accord with label. 



No. 30386. Composition 

 as claimed. Weight not 

 stated, as required by 

 law. 



Non-arsenical Insecticides Analysed in 1915. Arranged by 

 Classes of Insects They are Intended to Combat. 



Name and Address op 

 Maker, Name of Goods 

 and Source op Sample 



Claims Made on Certifi- 

 cate or on Label 



Results of Examination. 



BED BUGS, ROACHES, 

 ETC. 

 Fred E. Hall, Inc., Providence, 

 R. I. "Cearmist, " Jaynes 

 Drug Co., Portland. 



FLEAS 

 Dr. A. C. Daniels, Inc., Boston 

 Mass. "Dr. Daniels Flea 

 Powder, for Fleas and Ver- 

 min." P. J. Meserve, Bruns- 

 wick. 



FLIES. 

 Cook, Everett & Pennell, Port- 

 land, Me. "Cattle Oil." 

 Cook, Everett & Pennell, 

 Portland. 



Label claims goods to be 

 blend of coal oil, oil of cedar 

 and other volatile and essen- 

 tial oils, together with car- 

 bolic acid. One pint. 



On certificate claimed to con- 

 tain not less than 12 per 

 cent loam. On label: el- 

 fecti\e and harmless. 2f ozs 



No claims on _ certificate. 

 Sample not in oiiginal pack- 

 age. 



No. 30367. Sample con- 

 sisted chiefly of formalde- 

 hyde. Quantitative ana- 

 alysis not attempted. 

 Weight as claimed. 



No. 30362. _ Consists chief- 

 ly of insect powder, 

 powdered tobacco stems 

 and napthaline. Weight 

 as claimed. 



No. 30372. Active ingre- 

 dient oil of tar. 



