The standard weight of a barrel of flour

The standard weight of a barrel of potatoes...

The standard weight of a barrel of sweet potatoes.

60 196 lbs.

APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE FISCAL YEARS ENDING JUNE 30, 1922 AND JUNE 30, 1923.

For Salary and Clerk Hire...
For General Office Expenses.

Includes Furniture and Equipment, Print-
ing and Binding, Traveling Expenses of
Commissioner, Telephone and Telegraph,
Postage, Stationery and Supplies, Bul-
letins.

For Division of Plant Industry.

Includes Gypsy Moth Work, Corn Borer
Control, Work of State Horticulturist,
Seed Improvement and Promotion of Bee
Culture.

For Division of Markets....

Includes Farm Organization Work, Shipping Point Inspection, Crop Reporting, and instruction in Wool Grading and Bookkeeping.

For Division of Inspections...

Seeds,

Includes Enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Laws, Apple Inspection, Regulation of Weights and Measures and Inspection of Feeds, Fertilizers, Insecticides and Fungicides. For Division of Animal Industry..... Includes Milk and Dairy Inspection, Promotion of Sheep Husbandry and Poultry Industry and Livestock Sanitary Work, Including Payment for Condemned Tubercular Animals.

For Aid to Agricultural Societies and Fairs..

Includes $7,500 00 Special Stipend allowed to State Fairs by Statute, and $2,000.00 for Pomological Society.

For Farmers' Institutes

Includes Dairymen's Conference and
Awards to Poultry Societies.

For Maine Seed Improvement Association..

appropriation for

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES

Central Maine Fair Company, appropriation for

County and Local Societies, may take and hold property
Conduct of Exhibitions

Officers, may be examined by Commissioner of agriculture

reports. of

7

Protection Against Fraud

8

Regulation of Grounds

7-8

Score Card System, use of, in judging dairy products
State Stipend, apportionment of

6

5

conditions for receiving

5-7

Violation of Statutes, investigation of

4, 5

Colts, lien on, for payment of service fees

Dogs, complaint in regard to, when dangerous or vicious

damages done by, to domestic animals

to persons or property

15, 17, 18

penalty for keeping without a license
penalty for unjustifiable killing of
premeditated fights between
recovery for damages by

Dogs, registered, penalty for stealing, injuring or secreting

14

17

20

15

17

unlicensed, killing of

Horses, docking tails of

record of stallions

wild animals

14

25

28

Sheep, compensation of owner for loss of, from dogs or

keeping of on barren islands

marking of

protection of, from dogs and wild animals

.....

DAIRY PRODUCTS

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Babcock Test

penalty for violation

Butter, definition of

Butterine

Cheese, definition of

Cream Bottles, sealing of

penalty for violation

measures for, sealing of

standard unit of measure for

Creameries, inspection of

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58

85

84

85

56

57

Cream, care of vessels used in manufacture and sale of..

55-56

54-56

54-56

63, 64, 65

duty of officers

testing of measures used by, in determining butter

fat content of milk or cream

Dairy Products, articles sold in imitation of

duties of Commissioner of Agriculture in
relation to

59

83-84

84

49-50

Milk, care of vessels used in manufacture and sale of

Milk, kept in unsanitary condition. penalty for selling

measures used in sale of, how sealed

standards for

Milk Tests, measures used in, to be tested for accuracy

Milk Vessels, mutilating of

63

82

53

53

54

82

56

54

59

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