usages of trade, beef shall be branded "Mess beef" and "Prime beef," and pork shall be branded "Mess pork," "Prime pork," and Cargo pork."

Sec. 7917. Hay. The weight, in pounds, and the quality, determined according to the usages of trade, shall be branded on each bale of hay.

Sec. 7918. County commissioners may purchase hay-scales. Such boards may authorize inspectors of hay to procure, at the expense of the county, suitable hay-scales.

Burns' Ann. Stats., 1914, Vol. 3, ch. 63, p. 465.

Sec. 6866a (1913). Weights and samples of milk and cream; testing.— That it shall be unlawful for any hauler of milk or cream or other person, or creamery, or other milk plant or agent, receiving milk or cream by weight or test or by weight and test, to fraudulently manipulate the weights of milk or cream of any patron or to take unfair samples thereof, or to fraudulently manipulate such samples. The hauler shall weigh the milk or cream of each patron accurately and correctly to the factory. He shall thoroughly mix the milk or cream of each patron by pouring and stirring until such milk or cream is uniform and homogenous in richness, before the sample is taken from such milk or cream. When the weighing or sampling of the milk or cream of each patron is done at the creamery, shipping station or other factory, firm, corporation or individual buying and paying for milk or cream on the basis of the butter fat contained therein, the same rule shall apply.

Sec. 6866b. Glassware for testing milk and cream for butter fat.Every person, firm, company, association, corporation or agent thereof buying and paying for milk or cream on the basis of the amount of butter fat contained therein as determined by the Babcock test shall use standard Babcock test bottles, pipettes and weights and accurate scales, as defined in section 13 of this act, and all Babcock test bottles, pipettes and weights shall have been inspected for accuracy by the Purdue University agricultural experiment station, or its deputy, and shall be legibly and indelibly marked by the said Purdue University agricultural experiment station, or its deputy, with the letters "S. G. P." (Standard Glassware Purdue). No bottle, pipette or weight shall be used for such test unless so examined, and marked by the said Purdue University agricultural experiment station. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company, association, corporation, or any of their agents to use any other than standard test bottles, pipettes and weights which have been examined and marked as provided in this section, to determine the amount of fat in milk or cream, bought and paid for on the butter fat basis.

Sec. 6866c. Unlawful tests. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, by himself or as the officer, servant, agent or employe of any person, firm or corporation, buying and paying for milk or cream on the basis of the amount of fat contained therein to underread, over-read or otherwise fraudulently manipulate the Babcock test used for determining the per cent of fat in milk or cream, or to falsify the record thereof or to read the test at any temperature except the correct temperature which is 135 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, or to pay on the basis of any measurement or weight except the true measurement or weight which is 17.6 cubic centimeters

for milk and nine (9) grams for cream. This section further provides that in all tests the cream shall be weighed into the test bottles. Sec. 6866i. Prosecuting attorney; duties. It shall be the duty of every prosecuting attorney to whom the Purdue University agricultural experiment station shall report any violation of the provisions of this act to cause proceedings to be commenced against the person or persons so violating the provisions of this act, and to prosecute the same to final termination, according to the laws of the State of Indiana.

Sec. 6866j. Penalties. Any employe of a firm, company, association, corporation or person, buying and paying for milk or cream on the basis of the amount of butter fat it contains, violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars, nor more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars, or,be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than sixty (60) days nor more than twelve (12) months, or both. Any firm, company, association, corporation or person, buying or paying for milk or cream on the basis of the amount of butter fat contained therein, violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in the sum of one hundred ($100.00) dollars for the first offense and in the sum of not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, nor more than one thousand ($1,000) dollars for each subsequent offense.

Sec. 68661. Standard Babcock testing glassware defined; standard Babcock pipette; standard weights.-The term "standard Babcock testing glassware" shall apply to glassware and weights complying with the following specifications:

(a) STANDARD MILK TEST BOTTLES.-Graduation: The total per cent graduation shall be 8. The graduated portion of the neck shall have a length of not less than 63.5 mm (212 inches). The graduation shall represent whole per cent, five-tenths per cent, and tenths per cent. The tenths per cent graduations shall not be less than 3 mm in length; the five-tenths per cent graduations shall be 1 mm longer than the tenths per cent graduations, projecting 1 mm to the left; the whole per cent graduation shall extend one-half way around the neck to the right and projecting 2 mm to the left of the tenths per cent graduations. Each per cent graduation shall be numbered, the number being placed on the left of the scale. The error at any point of the scale shall not exceed one-tenth per cent. Neck: The neck shall be cylindrical and the cylindrical shape shall extend for at least nine millimeters below the lowest and above the highest graduation mark. The top of the neck shall be flared to a diameter of not less than ten (10) millimeters.

Bulb: The capacity of the bulb up to the junction of the neck shall not be less than 45 cubic centimeters. The shape of the bulb may be either cylindrical or conical with the smallest diameter at the bottom. If cylindrical, the outside diameter shall be between 34 and 36 mm; if conical, the outside diameter of the base shall be between 31 and 33 mm, and the maximum diameter between 35 and 37 mm.

The charge of the bottle shall be 18 grams.

The total height of the bottle shall be between 150 and 165 mm. (5% and 62 inches).

(b) STANDARD CREAM TEST BOTTLES.-Two types of bottles shall be accepted as standard cream test bottles, a 50% 9-gram, shortnecked bottle and a 50% 9-gram long-neck bottle.

FIFTY PER CENT 9-GRAM SHORT-NECK BOTTLES.-Graduation: The total per cent graduation shall be 50. The graduated portion of the neck shall have a length of not less than 63 mm (21⁄2 inches). The graduation shall represent five per cent, one per cent, and five-tenths per cent. The five per cent graduations shall extend at least halfway around the neck (to the right). The five-tenths per cent graduations shall be at least 3 mm in length, and the one per cent graduations shall have a length intermediate between the five per cent and the five-tenths per cent graduations. Each per cent graduation shall be numbered, the number being placed on the left of the scale. The error at any point of the scale shall not exceed fivetenths per cent.

Neck: The neck shall be cylindrical and the cylindrical shape shall extend at least 9 mm below the lowest and 9 mm above the highest graduation mark. The top of the neck shall be flared to a diameter of not less than 10 mm.

Bulb: The capacity of the bulb up to the junction of the neck shall be not less than 45 cubic centimeter. The shape of the bulb may be either cylindrical or conical with the smallest diameter at the bottom. If cylindrical, the outside diameter shall be between 34 and 36 mm; if conical, the outside diameter of the base shall be between 31 and 33 mm and the maximum diameter between 35 and 37 mm.

The charge of the bottle shall be 9 gram. All bottles shall bear on top of the neck above the graduations, in plainly legible characters, a mark defining the weight of the charge to be used (9 grams).

The total height of the bottle shall be between 150 and 165 mm (5% and 61⁄2 inches), same as standard test bottles.

FIFTY PER CENT 9-GRAM LONG-NECK BOTTLES.-The same specifications in every detail as specified for the 50 per cent 9-gram short-neck bottle shall apply for the long-neck bottle, with the exception, however, that the total height of this bottle shall be between 210 and 235 mm (814 and 87% inches).

Total length of pipette not more than 33 mm (1314 inches). Outside diameter of suction tube 6 to 8 mm. Length of suction tube 130 mm. Outside diameter of delivery tube 4.5 to 5.5 mm. Length of delivery tube 100 to 120 mm. Distance of graduation mark above bulb 30 to 60 mm. Nozzle straight. Delivery 17.6 cc of water at 20 degrees C. in 5 to 8 seconds.

The standard weight shall be nine (9) grams.

Burns' Ann. Stats., 1914, Vol. 3, ch. 88, p. 941.

Sec. 7940 (a1909). Commercial feeding stuffs, net weight to be marked. Any person, company, corporation or agent that shall sell or offer, or expose for sale, any concentrated commercial feeding stuff, in this State, shall affix, or cause to be affixed, to every package or sample of such concentrated commercial feeding stuff in a conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a tag or label which shall be accepted as a guarantee of the manufacturer, importer, dealer or agent, and which shall have plainly printed thereon in the English

language the number of net pounds of concentrated commercial feeding stuff in the package, the name, brand or trade-mark under which the concentrated commercial feeding stuff is sold, the name of the manufacturer, the location of the principal office of the manufacturer, When concentrated commercial feeding stuff

is sold in bulk a tag, as hereinbefore described, and a State chemist stamp shall be delivered to the consumer with each one hundred pounds, or fraction thereof: Provided, That State chemist's stamps shall be issued to cover twenty-five (25), fifty (50) and one hundred (100) pounds.

Laws, 1923, ch. 177, p. 487.

Sec. 8, as amended by Laws, 1925, ch. 171, p. 412. Weighmen; scales; inspection. (A) The operator of every mine at which the miners are paid by weight, shall provide suitable and accurate scales of standard manufacture for the weighing of coal which may be procured from such mines; such operator shall be required to keep United States standard weights to test said scales.

(B) At every mine where the coal mined is paid for by weight in shall be the duty of the weighman and the check-weighman to examine and balance the scales each morning, and in no case shall any coal be weighed until such scales are tested by the United States. standard weights and found to be correct. Said weighman shall accurately weigh, and he shall, together with the check-weighman, record the weight of each miner's car of coal delivered, which record shall be kept open at all reasonable hours for inspection of all miners or other persons pecuniarly interested in the product of such mine: Provided, That if the weighman and the check-weighman shall disagree, work may continue until the State commissioner of weights and measures or his deputy can be present, and any erroneous weights made during such time shall be rectified. When difference shall arise between the weighman and check-weighman, or operator, of any mine as to the correctness of the scales, the same shall be referred to the State commissioner of weights and measures or his deputy, whose duty it shall be to see and regulate the same at once.

(C) The State commissioner of weights and measures or his deputy and miners employed in the mine, the owner of the land and others personally interested in the royalty or rental of such mine, shall at all proper times have full right of access to make examination of scales or apparatus used for weighing coal in or about said mine, including the records in which the weights of coal are kept, to determine the amount of coal mined, for the purpose of attesting the accuracy thereof.

Sec. 9. Check-weighman.-(A) Whenever the mining of coal is paid for by weight, the miners employed in mining the same shall have the right of selecting and keeping in the weigh office, or at the place of weighing the coal, a check-weighman, who shall be vested with the same rights as described in section "8" of this act, said checkweighman to be paid by said miners.

Sec. 19, as amended by Acts, 1925, ch. 171, p. 412.-(E) It shall be the duty of the State commissioner of weights and measures, or his deputy, in addition to his other duties, to examine all scales used at any mine for the purpose of weighing coal taken out of said mine.

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The scales shall be tested by sealed weights; the same shall be furnished to said State commissioner of weights and measures, or his deputy, by the auditor of State on requisition, the cost of which shall be audited by the auditor of the State, and paid out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated. And on inspection, if the scales are found incorrect, and after written notice by the State commissioner of weights and measures, or his deputy, it shall be unlawful for any operator to use or suffer the same to be used, until the scales are adjusted to weigh correctly.