commercial feeding stuff for sale in this state, and also a certificate, the execution of which shall be sworn to before a notary public, or other proper official, for registration, stating the name of the manufacturer; the location of the principal office of the manufacturer; the name, brand, or trademark under which the concentrated commercial feeding stuff will be sold; the ingredients from which the concentrated commercial feeding stuff is compounded; and the minimum percentage of crude fat and crude protein (allowing one per cent of nitrogen to equal six and twenty-five hundredths per cent of protein) which the manufacturer, or person offering the concentrated commercial feeding stuff for sale guarantees it to contain, these constituents to be determined by the methods recommended by the association of official agricultural chemists of the United States. [L.'09, p. 706, § 2.]

§ 6013. Label of Packages and SamplesRequisites Approval Stamps. Any person, company, corporation, or agent, that shall sell, 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 trademark, under which the concentrated commercial feeding stuff is sold; the name of the manufacturer; the location of the principal office of the manufacturer; the guaranteed analysis stating the minimum percentage of crude fat and crude protein, determined as described in section 6012; and the ingredients from which the concentrated commercial feeding stuff is compounded. For each hundred pounds or fraction thereof, the person, company, corporation, or agent, shall also affix a stamp purchased from the director of the state experiment station, showing that the concentrated commercial feeding stuff has been registered as required by section 6012, and that the inspection tax has been paid. When concentrated commercial feeding stuff is sold in bulk a tag or label and a stamp from the director of the experiment station as herein before described shall be delivered to the purchaser with each hundred pounds or fraction thereof. [L. '09, p. 706, § 3.]

§ 6014. Registration-Sale of Stamps-Fees.-The director of the state experiment station shall register the facts set forth in the certificate required by section 6012 in a permanent record and shall furnish stamps or labels showing the registration of such certificate to manufacturers, or agents desiring to sell the concentrated commer cial feeding stuff so registered at such times and in such numbers as the manufacturers or agents may desire: Provided, that the director of the state experiment station shall not be required to sell stamps

or labels in less amount than to the value of five dollars ($5) or multiples of five dollars, for any one concentrated commercial feeding stuff: Provided further, that the director of the state experiment station shall not be required to register any certificate unless accompanied by an order and fee for stamps or labels to the value of five dollars ($5) or some multiple of five dollars: Provided further, that such stamps or labels shall be printed in such form as the director of the state experiment station may prescribe: Provided further, that such stamps or labels shall be good until used. [L. '09, p. 707, § 4.] § 6015. Dealers' Reports of Sales.-On or before January 31st of each year each and every manufacturer, importer, dealer, agent, or person who causes any concentrated commercial feeding stuff to be sold, offered or exposed for sale in the state of Washington shall file with the director of the state experiment station of Washington a sworn statement, giving the number of net pounds of each brand of concentrated commercial feeding stuff he has sold or caused to be offered for sale in the state for the previous year ending with December 31st: Provided, that when the manufacturer, jobber, or importer of any concentrated commercial feeding stuff shall have filed the statement aforesaid, any person acting as agent for said manufacturer, importer, or jobber shall not be required to file such statement. [L. '09, p. 708, § 5.]

Cited in 84 Wash. 248.

§ 6016. Expenses-Disposition of Fees-Annual Report.-For the expense incurred in registering, inspecting and analyzing concentrated commercial feeding stuffs the director of the state experiment station shall receive for stamps or labels purchased one dollar per hundred. The money for said stamps or labels shall be forwarded to the director of the state experiment station, by whom all such fees shall be paid into the treasury of the said Washington agricultural experiment station, the board of control of which shall expend the same in meeting all necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of this act, including the employment of inspectors or chemists, expenses in procuring samples, printing bulletins giving the results of the work of feeding stuff inspection, and for any other expenses of the said Washington agricultural experiment station as authorized by law. The director of the state experiment station shall make to the governor on or before February 15th of each year a classified report showing the total receipts and expenditures of all fees received under the provisions of this act. [L. '09, p. 708, § 6.]

§ 6017. Sale of Nonlabeled or Inferior Grade Prohibited — Evidence-Penalty.-Any person, company, corporation or agent that shall offer or expose for sale, or sell, any package or sample or any quantity of any concentrated commercial feeding stuff which has not been registered with the director of the state experiment station as

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required by section 6012, or which does not have affixed to it the tag and stamp required by section 6013, or which is found by an analysis made by or under the direction of the chemist of the state experiment station to contain a smaller percentage of crude fat or crude protein than the minimum guarantee, or which shall be labeled with a false or inaccurate guarantee; or who shall adulterate any concentrated commercial feeding stuff with foreign mineral matter or other foreign material of less or little or no feeding value without plainly' stating on the label hereinbefore described the kind and amount of such mixture; or who shall adulterate with any substance injurious to the health of domestic animals; or who shall alter the stamp, tag, or label of the director of the state experiment station, or shall use the name and title of the director of the state experiment station on a stamp, tag, or label not furnished by him or shall use the stamp, tag, or label of the director of the state experiment station a second time; or who shall refuse or fail to make the sworn statement required by section 6015, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined in the sum of fifty dollars for the first offense and in the sum of one hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. In all litigation arising from the purchase or sale of any concentrated commercial feeding stuff in which the composition of the same may be involved a certified copy of the official analysis signed by the chemist of the state experiment station shall be accepted as prima facie evidence of the composition of such concentrated commercial feeding stuff: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed to restrict or prohibit the sale of concentrated commercial feeding stuff in bulk to each other by importers, manufacturers or manipulators who mix concentrated commercial feeding stuffs for sale, or as preventing the unrestricted shipment of these articles in bulk to manufacturers or manipulators who mix concentrated commercial feeding stuffs for sale, or to prevent the director of the Washington agricultural experiment station, or any person or persons authorized by him, from making experiments with concentrated commercial feeding stuffs for the advancement of the science of agriculture. [L. '09, p. 709, § 7.]

§ 6018. Samples for Analysis.-The director of the state experiment station, or any person by him deputized, is hereby empowered to procure from any lot, parcel, or package of any concentrated commercial feeding stuff offered for sale or found in Washington, a sample quantity thereof not to exceed two pounds: Provided, that such sample shall be drawn during reasonable business hours, or in the presence of the owner of the concentrated commercial feeding stuff or of some person claiming to represent the owner. [L. '09, p. 710, § 8.]

§ 6019. Obstructing Inspection-Penalty.-Any person who shall prevent or strive to prevent the director of the state experiment sta- ·

tion, or any person deputized by him, from inspecting and obtaining samples of concentrated commercial feeding stuff as provided for in the preceding section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in the sum of fifty dollars for the first offense, and in the sum of one hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. [L. '09, p. 710, § 9.]

$ 6020. Powers of Director of State Experiment Station.-The director of the state experiment station is hereby empowered to prescribe and enforce such rules and regulations relating to concentrated commercial feeding stuffs as he may deem necessary to carry into effect the full intent and meaning of this act, and to refuse the registration of any feeding stuff under a name which would be misleading as to the materials of which it is made, or when the pereentage of crude fat or crude protein is below the standards adopted for concentrated commercial feeding stuffs. The director of the state experiment station is further empowered to refuse to issue stamps or labels to any manufacturer, importer, dealer, agent, or person who shall sell or offer or expose for sale any concentrated commercial feeding stuff in this state and refuse to submit the sworn statement required by section 6015. [L. '09, p. 710, § 10.]

$6021. Enforcement of Act-Duty of Attorney General.—It shall be the duty of the state attorney general or the prosecuting attorney of the several counties of this state to cause proceedings to be commenced against any person or persons whom the director of the state experiment station shall report to have violated any section of this act and to prosecute the same in the manner required by law. [L. '09, p. 711, § 11.]

$ 6022. Exception of Ordinary Milling Products.-The provisions of this act shall not apply to cereal or flouring mills selling mill bran, shorts, or middlings made in the regular process of manufacturing cereal or flour. [L. '09, p. 711, § 13.]

Cited in 84 Wash. 248-251; 86 Wash. 35.

"Act" refers to the preceding sections of this chapter.

§ 6023. Adulteration of Ground Food for Livestock-Marking— Penalty. Any person who shall adulterate any kind of meal or ground grain used for feeding farm livestock, with milling or manufacturing offals, or any other substance whatever, for the purpose of sale, unless the true composition, mixture or adulteration thereof is plainly marked or indicated upon the package, sacks or bags containing the same or in which it is offered for sale; or any person who knowingly sells or offers for sale any meal or ground grain which has been so adulterated unless the true composition, mixture or adulteration is plainly marked or indicated upon the package containing the same, or in which it is offered for sale, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less

than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each and every offense, or by imprisonment for not less than one month or more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. [L. '05, p. 205, § 1.]

§ 6024. Enforcement-Duty of Officers.-The state dairy and food commissioner, the chemist of the state agricultural experiment station, the state attorney general and the prosecuting attorneys of the several counties of this state are hereby required, without additional compensation, to assist in the enforcement and execution of this act, and in the prosecution of all persons charged with the violation thereof, in like manner and with like powers as they are now authorized and required by law to enforce the laws of this state against the adulteration of food and fraud in the sale thereof. [L. '05, p. 205, § 2.]

"Act" refers to the last previous section.

CHAPTER III.

Hop Inspection.

$ 6025. Hop Inspector-Appointment. The governor of the state of Washington shall appoint some suitable person whose duties it shall be to inspect hops and determine and fix the grade or quality thereof as hereinafter provided. [L. '99, p. 161, § 1.]

§ 6026. May Call Inspector to Fix Grade Certificate. Any person, firm, company or corporation owning hops within said state of Washington, who may contract for the future sale of his, her, or their hops or give a chattel mortgage on any crop of hops yet to be grown, for money advanced by the mortgagee to be used in cultivating and harvesting said crop, or any person, firm, company or corporation contracting to buy any crop of hops yet to be grown, or who takes a chattel mortgage on any such crop may if such owner, buyer, or mortgagee cannot agree on the grade of said hops when in the bale and ready for delivery, call upon said hop inspector to inspect said hops and determine and fix the grade or quality thereof, and issue to each of said parties a certificate specifying the name of the owner, the buyer or mortgagee, the date of inspection and the grade or quality fixed by him. [L. '99, p. 162, § 2.]

§ 6027. Certificate as Evidence. The certificate of said hop inspector stating the grade or quality of any hops shall be prima facie evidence of the same. [L. '99, p. 162, § 3.]

$ 6028. Compensation of Inspector.-Said hop inspector shall be paid five dollars per day for each day actually engaged in the performance of his duties, together with mileage and necessary expenses, to be paid equally by said owner, and said buyer or mortgagee. [L. '99, p. 162, § 4.]