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BUG DEATH. 
This is put on the market by the Danforth Chemical Co., Leo- 
minster, Mass. The sample examined was taken at Medina. It 
consists largely of the oxides of zinc, lead and iron. It contains 
some phosphorus. 
PRESENT LAW DEFECTIVE. 
The law in its present condition is seriously defective, as it fails 
totally to protect purchasers from adulteration of Paris green with 
reference to the only material that we have found commonly used 
as an adulterant, and that is white arsenic. As the law now stands, 
there is nothing to prevent the addition of any amount of white 
arsenic to Paris green. ‘The law also fails to define Paris green. 
In order to make the law really efficient, Paris green should be 
legally defined and the amount of copper should be taken into 
consideration as well as the amount of arsenious oxide. It is a 
matter of. congratulation and surprise that with so loosely con- 
structed a law there should be found such a satisfactory condition 
in the Paris green samples found in the market. 
LAW TO PREVENT FRAUD IN THE SALE OF PARIS 
GREEN. 
Laws or New Yorx.— Cuap. 113. 
AN ACT to amend the agricultural law, to prevent fraud in the 
sale of Paris green. 
Became a law March 23, 1898, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, 
three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate 
and Assembly, do enact as follows: 
Section 1. Chapter three hundred and thirty-eight of the laws 
of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An act in rela- 
tion to agriculture, constituting articles one, two, three, four and 
five, of chapter thirty-three of the general laws,” is hereby 
